Isolation and identification of polymerases

ABSTRACT

The invention provides purified thermostable enzymes derived from various extremophilic prokaryotic organisms. The enzymes have polymerase activity and can be used to catalyze DNA synthesis by addition of deoxynucleotides to the 3&#39; end of a polynucleotide chain, using a complementary polynucleotide strands as a template.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to newly identified polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides, as well as the production and isolation of such polynucleotides and polypeptides. More particularly, the polypeptides of the present invention have been identified as polymerases.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Thermophilic bacteria have received considerable attention as sources of highly active and thermostable enzymes. Recently, the most extremely thermophilic organotrophic eubacteria presently known have been isolated and characterized. These bacteria, which belong to the genus thermotoga, are fermentative microorganisms metabolizing a variety of carbohydrates (Huber, R. and Stetter, K. O., in Ballows, et al., (Ed.), The Procaryotes, 2nd Ed., Springer-Verlaz, New York, pgs. 3809-3819 (1992)).

In Huber et al., 1986, Arch. Microbiol. 144:324-333, the isolation of the bacterium Thermotoga maritima is described. T. maritima is a eubacterium that is strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped, fermentative, hyperthermophilic, and grows between 55° C. and 90° C., with an optimum growth temperature of about 80° C. This eubacterium has been isolated from geothermally heated sea floors in Italy and the Azores. T. maritima cells have a sheath-like structure and monotrichous flagellation. T. maritima is classified in the eubacterium kingdom by virtue of having murein and fatty acid-containing lipids, diphtheria-toxin-resistant elongation factor 2, an RNA polymerase subunit pattern, and sensitivity to antibiotics.

Since, to date, most organisms identified from the archaeal domain are thermophiles or hyperthermophiles, archaea are also considered a fertile source of thermophilic enzymes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby which have been identified as polymerase enzymes. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided novel enzymes, as well as active fragments, analogs and derivatives thereof.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there are provided isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes of the present invention including mRNAs, DNAs, cDNAs, genomic DNAs as well as active analogs and fragments of such enzymes.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention there are provided isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding mature polypeptides expressed by the DNA in SEQ ID Nos:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.

In accordance with yet a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for producing such polypeptide by recombinant techniques comprising culturing recombinant prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic host cells, containing a nucleic acid sequence encoding an enzyme of the present invention, under conditions promoting expression of said enzyme and subsequent recovery of said enzyme.

In accordance with yet a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for utilizing such enzymes, or polynucleotide encoding such enzymes for polymerizing DNA.

In accordance with yet a further aspect of the present invention, there is also provided nucleic acid probes comprising nucleic acid molecules of sufficient length to specifically hybridize to a nucleic acid sequence of the present invention.

In accordance with yet a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for utilizing such enzymes, or polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, for in vitro purposes related to scientific research, for example, to generate probes for identifying similar sequences which might encode similar enzymes from other organisms.

These and other aspects of the present invention should be apparent to those skilled in the art from the teachings herein.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The following drawings are illustrative of embodiments of the invention and are not meant to limit the scope of the invention as encompassed by the claims. Sequencing was performed using a 378 automated DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Inc.).

FIG. 1 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (3py1) from Ammonifex degensii.

FIG. 2 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (1PY2) from Pyrolobus fumarius.

FIG. 3 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (5PY1) from Archaeoglobus lithotrophicus.

FIG. 4 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (23PY1) from Metallosphaera prunae.

FIG. 5 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (29PY1) from Desulfurococcus.

FIG. 6 shows the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of DNA polymerase (34PY1) from Aquifex VF-5.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The term "gene" means the segment of DNA involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it includes regions preceding and following the coding region (leader and trailer) as well as intervening sequences (introns) between individual coding segments (exons).

A coding sequence is "operably linked to" another coding sequence when RNA polymerase will transcribe the two coding sequences into a single mRNA, which is then translated into a single polypeptide having amino acids derived from both coding sequences. The coding sequences need not be contiguous to one another so long as the expressed sequences are ultimately processed to produce the desired protein.

"Recombinant" enzymes refer to enzymes produced by recombinant DNA techniques; i.e., produced from cells transformed by an exogenous DNA construct encoding the desired enzyme. "Synthetic" enzymes are those prepared by chemical synthesis.

A DNA "coding sequence of" or a "nucleotide sequence encoding" a particular enzyme, is a DNA sequence which is transcribed and translated into an enzyme when placed under the control of appropriate regulatory sequences. A "promotor sequence" is a DNA regulatory region capable of binding RNA polymerase in a cell and initiating transcription of a downstream (3' direction) coding sequence. The promoter is part of the DNA sequence. This sequence region has a start codon at its 3' terminus. The promoter sequence does include the minimum number of bases where elements necessary to initiate transcription at levels detectable above background. However, after the RNA polymerase binds the sequence and transcription is initiated at the start codon (3' terminus with a promoter), transcription proceeds downstream in the 3' direction. Within the promotor sequence will be found a transcription initiation site (conveniently defined by mapping with nuclease S1) as well as protein binding domains (consensus sequences) responsible for the binding of RNA polymerase.

The present invention provides purified thermostable enzymes that catalyze DNA synthesis by addition of deoxynucleotides to the 3' end of a polynucleotide chain, using a complementary polynucleotide strand as a template. An exemplary purified enzyme is a polymerase derived from an organism referred herein as "Ammonifex degensii KC4" is a gram negative, chemolithoautotrophic eubacteria and has a very high temperature optimum. Ammonifex degensii KC4 was discovered in a deep sea isolate from the Middle Atlantic Ridge. Ammonifex degensii KC4 grows optimally at 70° C. and pH 7.0 in a low salt medium. This exemplary enzyme is shown in FIG. 1.

The polynucleotide encoding SEQ ID NO:1 was originally recovered from a genomic gene library derived from Ammonifex degensii KC4 as described below. It contains an open reading frame encoding a protein of 867 amino acid residues.

In one embodiment, the representative polymerase of SEQ ID NO:1 of the present invention has a molecular weight of about 95.6 kilodaltons as measured by SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis and an inferred molecular weight from the nucleotide sequence of the gene. This purified enzyme may be used to polymerize DNA where desired. The polymerase enzyme of the present invention has a very high thermostability and has the closest homology to polymerase from Bacillus stearothermophilus with 56% identity and 75% similarity at the amino acid level.

In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there are provided isolated nucleic acid molecules (polynucleotides) which encode for the mature enzymes having the deduced amino acid sequence of FIGS. 1-6 and SEQ ID NOs:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.

This invention, in addition to the isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an polymerase enzyme disclosed in FIGS. 1-6 (SEQ ID NOs:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11), also provides substantially similar sequences. Isolated nucleic acid sequences are substantially similar if: (i) they are capable of hybridizing under stringent conditions, hereinafter described, to SEQ ID NO:1; or (ii) they encode DNA sequences which are degenerate to SEQ ID NO:1. Degenerate DNA sequences encode the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, but have variations in the nucleotide coding sequences. As used herein, "substantially similar" refers to the sequences having similar identity to the sequences of the instant invention. The nucleotide sequences that are substantially similar can be identified by hybridization or by sequence comparison. Enzyme sequences that are substantially similar can be identified by one or more of the following: proteolytic digestion, gel electrophoresis and/or microsequencing. One means for isolating a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polymerase enzyme is to probe a genomic gene library with a natural or artificially designed probe using art recognized procedures (see, for example: Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, Ausubel F. M. et al. (EDS.) Green Publishing Company Assoc. and John Wiley Interscience, New York, 1989, 1992). It is appreciated to one skilled in the art that SEQ ID NO:1, or fragments thereof (comprising at least 15 contiguous nucleotides), is a particularly useful probe. Other particular useful probes for this purpose are hybridizable fragments to the sequences of SEQ ID NO:1 (i.e., comprising at least 15 contiguous nucleotides).

With respect to nucleic acid sequences which hybridize to specific nucleic acid sequences disclosed herein, hybridization may be carried out under conditions of reduced stringency, medium stringency or even stringent conditions. As an example of oligonucleotide hybridization, a polymer membrane containing immobilized denatured nucleic acid is first prehybridized for 30 minutes at 45° C. in a solution consisting of 0.9M NaCl, 50 mM NaH₂ PO₄, pH 7.0, 5.0 mM Na₂ EDTA, 0.5% SDS, 10× Denhardt's, and 0.5 mg/mL polyriboadenylic acid. Approximately 2×10⁷ cpm (specific activity 4-9×10⁸ cpM/μg) of ³² P end-labeled oligonucleotide probe are then added to the solution. After 12-16 hours of incubation, the membrane is washed for 30 minutes at room temperature in 1× SET (150 mM NaCl, 20 mM Tris hydrochloride, pH 7.8, 1 mM Na₂ EDTA) containing 0.5% SDS, followed by a 30 minute wash in fresh 1× SET at Tm-10° C. for the oligo-nucleotide probe. The membrane is then exposed to auto-radiographic film for detection of hybridization signals.

In nucleic acid hybridization reactions, the conditions used to achieve a particular level of stringency will vary, depending on the nature of the nucleic acids being hybridized. For example, the length, degree of complementarity, nucleotide sequence composition (e.g., GC v. AT content), and nucleic acid type (e.g., RNA v. DNA) of the hybridizing regions of the nucleic acids can be considered in selecting hybridization conditions. An additional consideration is whether one of the nucleic acids is immobilized, for example, on a filter.

An example of progressively higher stringency conditions is as follows: 2× SSC/0.1% SDS at about room temperature (hybridization conditions); 0.2× SSC/0.1% SDS at about room temperature (low stringency conditions); 0.2× SSC/0.1% SDS at about 42° C. (moderate stringency conditions); and 0.1× SSC at about 68° C. (high stringency conditions). Washing can be carried out using only one of these conditions, e.g., high stringency conditions, or each of the conditions can be used, e.g., for 10-15 minutes each, in the order listed above, repeating any or all of the steps listed. However, as mentioned above, optimal conditions will vary, depending on the particular hybridization reaction involved, and can be determined empirically.

"Identity" as the term is used herein, refers to a polynucleotide sequence which comprises a percentage of the same bases as a reference polynucleotide (SEQ ID NO:1). For example, a polynucleotide which is at least 90% identical to a reference polynucleotide, has polynucleotide bases which are identical in 90% of the bases which make up the reference polynucleotide and may have different bases in 10% of the bases which comprise that polynucleotide sequence.

The present invention also relates to polynucleotides which differ from the reference polynucleotide such that the changes are silent changes, for example the changes do not alter the amino acid sequence encoded by the polynucleotide. The present invention also relates to nucleotide changes which result in amino acid substitutions, additions, deletions, fusions and truncations in the enzyme encoded by the reference polynucleotide (SEQ ID NO:1). In a preferred aspect of the invention these enzymes retain the same biological action as the enzyme encoded by the reference polynucleotide.

It is also appreciated that such probes can be and are preferably labeled with an analytically detectable reagent to facilitate identification of the probe. Useful reagents include but are not limited to radioactivity, fluorescent dyes or enzymes capable of catalyzing the formation of a detectable product. The probes are thus useful to isolate complementary copies of DNA from other animal sources or to screen such sources for related sequences.

The present invention provides substantially pure polymerase enzymes. The term "substantially pure" is used herein to describe a molecule, such as a polypeptide (e.g., a polymerase polypeptide, or a fragment thereof) that is substantially free of other proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and other biological materials with which it is naturally associated. For example, a substantially pure molecule, such as a polypeptide, can be at least 60%, by dry weight, the molecule of interest. The purity of the polypeptides can be determined using standard methods including, e.g., polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (e.g., SDS-PAGE), column chromatography (e.g., high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)), and amino-terminal amino acid sequence analysis.

Polymerase polypeptides included in the invention can have one of the amino acid sequences of polymerases shown in FIGS. 1 through 6 (SEQ ID Nos:2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12), for example, the amino acid sequence of Ammonifex degensii KC4 (SEQ ID NO:2). Polymerase polypeptides, such as those isolated from Ammonifex degensii KC4, can be characterized by polymerizing DNA.

Also included in the invention are polypeptides having sequences that are "substantially identical" to the sequence of a polymerase polypeptide, such as one of SEQ ID NO:2, e.g., SEQ ID NO:4. A "substantially identical" amino acid sequence is a sequence that differs from a reference sequence only by conservative amino acid substitutions, for example, substitutions of one amino acid for another of the same class (e.g., substitution of one hydrophobic amino acid, such as isoleucine, valine, leucine, or methionine, for another, or substitution of one polar amino acid for another, such as substitution of arginine for lysine, glutamic acid for aspartic acid, or glutamine for asparagine), or by one or more non-conservative substitutions, deletions, or insertions, provided that the polypeptide retains at least one polymerase-specific activity or a polymerase-specific epitope. For example, one or more amino acids can be deleted from a polymerase polypeptide, resulting in modification of the structure of the polypeptide, without significantly altering its biological activity. For example, amino- or carboxyl-terminal amino acids that are not required for polymerase biological activity, can be removed. Such modifications can result in the development of smaller active polymerase polypeptides.

Other polymerase polypeptides included in the invention are polypeptides having amino acid sequences that are at least 50% identical to the amino acid sequence of a polymerase polypeptide, such as any of polymerases in SEQ ID Nos:2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, e.g., SEQ ID NO:12. The length of comparison in determining amino acid sequence homology can be, for example, at least 15 amino acids, for example, at least 20, 25, or 35 amino acids. Homology can be measured using standard sequence analysis software (e.g., Sequence Analysis Software Package of the Genetics Computer Group, University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, Wis. 53705; also see Ausubel, et al., supra).

The invention also includes fragments of polymerase polypeptides that retain at least one polymerase-specific activity or epitope. Polymerase activity can be assayed by examining the polymerizing of DNA. For example, a polymerase polypeptide fragment containing, e.g., at least 8-10 amino acids can be used as an immunogen in the production of polymerase-specific antibodies. The fragment can contain, for example, an amino acid sequence that is conserved in polymerases, and this amino acid sequence can contain amino acids that are conserved in polymerases. Such fragments can easily be identified by comparing the sequences of polymerases found in FIGS. 1-X. In addition to their use as peptide immunogens, the above-described polymerase fragments can be used in immunoassays, such as ELISAs, to detect the presence of polymerase-specific antibodies in samples.

The polymerase polypeptides of the invention can be obtained using any of several standard methods. For example, polymerase polypeptides can be produced in a standard recombinant expression systems (see below), chemically synthesized (this approach may be limited to small polymerase peptide fragments), or purified from organisms in which they are naturally expressed.

The invention also provides isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode the polymerase polypeptides described above, as well as fragments thereof. For example, nucleic acids that encode any of SEQ ID Nos:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 are included in the invention. These nucleic acids can contain naturally occurring nucleotide sequences, or sequences that differ from those of the naturally occurring nucleic acids that encode polymerases, but encode the same amino acids, due to the degeneracy of the genetic code. The nucleic acids of the invention can contain DNA or RNA nucleotides, or combinations or modifications thereof. Exemplary nucleic acids of the invention are shown in SEQ ID NO:1.

By "isolated nucleic acid" is meant a nucleic acid, e.g., a DNA or RNA molecule, that is not immediately contiguous with the 5' and 3' flanking sequences with which it normally is immediately contiguous when present in the naturally occurring genome of the organism from which it is derived. The term thus describes, for example, a nucleic acid that is incorporated into a vector, such as a plasmid or viral vector; a nucleic acid that is incorporated into the genome of a heterologous cell (or the genome of a homologous cell, but at a site different from that at which it naturally occurs); and a nucleic acid that exists as a separate molecule, e.g., a DNA fragment produced by PCR amplification or restriction enzyme digestion, or an RNA molecule produced by in vitro transcription. The term also describes a recombinant nucleic acid that forms part of a hybrid gene encoding additional polypeptide sequences that can be used, for example, in the production of a fusion protein.

The nucleic acid molecules of the invention can be used as templates in standard methods for production of polymerase gene products (e.g., polymerase RNAs and polymerase polypeptides). In addition, the nucleic acid molecules that encode polymerase polypeptides (and fragments thereof) and related nucleic acids, such as (1) nucleic acids containing sequences that are complementary to, or that hybridize to, nucleic acids encoding polymerase polypeptides, or fragments thereof (e.g., fragments containing at least 12, 15, 20, or 25 nucleotides); and (2) nucleic acids containing sequences that hybridize to sequences that are complementary to nucleic acids encoding polymerase polypeptides, or fragments thereof (e.g., fragments containing at least 12, 15, 20, or 25 nucleotides); can be used in methods focused on their hybridization properties. For example, as is described in further detail below, such nucleic acid molecules can be used in the following methods: PCR methods for synthesizing polymerase nucleic acids, methods for detecting the presence of an polymerase nucleic acid in a sample, screening methods for identifying nucleic acids encoding new polymerase family members.

The invention also includes methods for identifying nucleic acid molecules that encode members of the polymerase polypeptide family in addition to SEQ ID Nos:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. In these methods, a sample, e.g., a nucleic acid library, such as a cDNA library, that contains a nucleic acid encoding a polymerase polypeptide is screened with a polymerase-specific probe, e.g., a polymerase-specific nucleic acid probe. Polymerase-specific nucleic acid probes are nucleic acid molecules (e.g., molecules containing DNA or RNA nucleotides, or combinations or modifications thereof) that specifically hybridize to nucleic acids encoding polymerase polypeptides, or to complementary sequences thereof. The term "polymerase-specific probe," in the context of this method of invention, refers to probes that bind to nucleic acids encoding polymerase polypeptides, or to complementary sequences thereof, to a detectably greater extent than to nucleic acids encoding other enzymes, or to complementary sequences thereof.

The invention facilitates production of polymerase-specific nucleic acid probes. Methods for obtaining such probes can be designed based on the amino acid sequences shown in FIG. 1. The probes, which can contain at least 12, e.g.,at least 15, 25, 35, 50, 100, or 150 nucleotides, can be produced using any of several standard methods (see, e.g., Ausubel, et al., supra). For example, preferably, the probes are generated using PCR amplification methods. In these methods, primers are designed that correspond to polymerase-conserved sequences (see FIG. 1), which can include polymerase-specific amino acids, and the resulting PCR product is used as a probe to screen a nucleic acid library, such as a cDNA library.

The coding sequences for the polymerase enzymes of the present invention were identified by preparing an Ammonifex degensii KC4 genomic DNA library, for example, and screening the library for the clones having polymerase activity. Such methods for constructing a genomic gene library are well-known in the art. One means, for example, comprises shearing DNA isolated from Ammonifex degensii KC4 by physical disruption. A small amount of the sheared DNA is checked on an agarose gel to verify that the majority of the DNA is in the desired size range (approximately 3-6 kb). The DNA is then blunt ended using Mung Bean Nuclease, incubated at 37° C. and phenol/chloroform extracted. The DNA is then methylated using Eco RI Methylase. Eco RI linkers are then ligated to the blunt ends through the use of T4 DNA ligase and incubation at 4° C. The ligation reaction is then terminated and the DNA is cut-back with Eco RI restriction enzyme. The DNA is then size fractionated on a sucrose gradient following procedures known in the art, for example, Maniatis, T., et al., Molecular Cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Press, New York, 1982, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

A plate assay is then performed to get an approximate concentration of the DNA. Ligation reactions are then performed and 1 (1 of the ligation reaction is packaged to construct a library. Packaging, for example, may occur through the use of purified (λgt11 phage arms cut with EcoRI and DNA cut with EcoRI after attaching EcoRI linkers. The DNA and (λ gt11 arms are ligated with DNA ligase. The ligated DNA is then packaged into infectious phage particles. The packaged phages are used to infect E. coli cultures and the infected cells are spread on agar plates to yield plates carrying thousands of individual phage plaques. The library is then amplified.

Fragments of the full length gene of the present invention may be used as a hybridization probe for a cDNA or a genomic library to isolate the full length DNA and to isolate other DNAs which have a high sequence similarity to the gene or similar biological activity. Probes of this type have at least 10, preferably at least 15, and even more preferably at least 30 bases and may contain, for example, at least 50 or more bases. The probe may also be used to identify a DNA clone corresponding to a full length transcript and a genomic clone or clones that contain the complete gene including regulatory and promotor regions, exons, and introns.

The isolated nucleic acid sequences and other enzymes may then be measured for retention of biological activity characteristic to the enzyme of the present invention, for example, in an assay for detecting enzymatic polymerase activity. Such enzymes include truncated forms of polymerase, and variants such as deletion and insertion variants.

The polynucleotide of the present invention may be in the form of DNA which DNA includes cDNA, genomic DNA, and synthetic DNA. The DNA may be double-stranded or single-stranded, and if single stranded may be the coding strand or non-coding (anti-sense) strand. The coding sequence which encodes the mature enzyme may be identical to the coding sequences shown in FIGS. 1-6, or may be a different coding sequence which coding sequence, as a result of the redundancy or degeneracy of the genetic code, encodes the same mature enzyme as the DNA of FIGS. 1-6 (e.g., SEQ ID NO:1).

The polynucleotide which encodes the mature enzyme of FIG. 1 (e.g., SEQ ID NO:1) may include, but is not limited to: only the coding sequence for the mature enzyme; the coding sequence for the mature enzyme and additional coding sequence such as a leader sequence or a proprotein sequence; the coding sequence for the mature enzyme (and optionally additional coding sequence) and non-coding sequence, such as introns or non-coding sequence 5' and/or 3' of the coding sequence for the mature enzyme.

Thus, the term "polynucleotide encoding an enzyme (protein)" encompasses a polynucleotide which includes only coding sequence for the enzyme as well as a polynucleotide which includes additional coding and/or non-coding sequence.

The present invention further relates to variants of the hereinabove described polynucleotides which encode for fragments, analogs and derivatives of the enzyme having the deduced amino acid sequence of FIG. 1 (e.g., SEQ ID NO:2). The variant of the polynucleotide may be a naturally occurring allelic variant of the polynucleotide or a non-naturally occurring variant of the polynucleotide.

Thus, the present invention includes polynucleotides encoding the same mature enzyme as shown in FIG. 1 as well as variants of such polynucleotides which variants encode for a fragment, derivative or analog of the enzyme of FIG. 1. Such nucleotide variants include deletion variants, substitution variants and addition or insertion variants.

As hereinabove indicated, the polynucleotide may have a coding sequence which is a naturally occurring allelic variant of the coding sequence shown in FIG. 1. As known in the art, an allelic variant is an alternate form of a polynucleotide sequence which may have a substitution, deletion or addition of one or more nucleotides, which does not substantially alter the function of the encoded enzyme.

The present invention also includes polynucleotides, wherein the coding sequence for the mature enzyme may be fused in the same reading frame to a polynucleotide sequence which aids in expression and secretion of an enzyme from a host cell, for example, a leader sequence which functions to control transport of an enzyme from the cell. The enzyme having a leader sequence is a preprotein and may have the leader sequence cleaved by the host cell to form the mature form of the enzyme. The polynucleotides may also encode for a proprotein which is the mature protein plus additional 5' amino acid residues. A mature protein having a prosequence is a proprotein and is an inactive form of the protein. Once the prosequence is cleaved an active mature protein remains.

Thus, for example, the polynucleotide of the present invention may encode for a mature enzyme, or for an enzyme having a prosequence or for an enzyme having both a prosequence and a presequence (leader sequence).

The present invention further relates to polynucleotides which hybridize to the hereinabove-described sequences if there is at least 70%, preferably at least 90%, and more preferably at least 95% identity between the sequences. The present invention particularly relates to polynucleotides which hybridize under stringent conditions to the hereinabove-described polynucleotides. As herein used, the term "stringent conditions" means hybridization will occur only if there is at least 95% and preferably at least 97% identity between the sequences. The polynucleotides which hybridize to the hereinabove described polynucleotides in a preferred embodiment encode enzymes which either retain substantially the same biological function or activity as the mature enzyme encoded by the DNA of FIG. 1.

Alternatively, the polynucleotide may have at least 15 bases, preferably at least 30 bases, and more preferably at least 50 bases which hybridize to a polynucleotide of the present invention and which has an identity thereto, as hereinabove described, and which may or may not retain activity. For example, such polynucleotides may be employed as probes for the polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO:1, for example, for recovery of the polynucleotide or as a PCR primer.

Thus, the present invention is directed to polynucleotides having at least a 70% identity, preferably at least 90% identity and more preferably at least a 95% identity to a polynucleotide which encodes the enzyme of SEQ ID NO:1 as well as fragments thereof, which fragments have at least 30 bases and preferably at least 50 bases to enzymes encoded by such polynucleotides.

The present invention further relates to an enzyme which has the deduced amino acid sequence of FIGS. 1-6, as well as fragments, analogs and derivatives of such enzyme.

The terms "fragment," "derivative" and "analog" when referring to the enzyme of FIG. 1 means a enzyme which retains essentially the same biological function or activity as such enzyme. Thus, an analog includes a proprotein which can be activated by cleavage of the proprotein portion to produce an active mature enzyme.

The enzyme of the present invention may be a recombinant enzyme, a natural enzyme or a synthetic enzyme, preferably a recombinant enzyme.

The fragment, derivative or analog of the enzyme of FIG. 1 may be (i) one in which one or more of the amino acid residues are substituted with a conserved or non-conserved amino acid residue (preferably a conserved amino acid residue) and such substituted amino acid residue may or may not be one encoded by the genetic code, or (ii) one in which one or more of the amino acid residues includes a substituent group, or (iii) one in which the mature enzyme is fused with another compound, such as a compound to increase the half-life of the enzyme (for example, polyethylene glycol), or (iv) one in which the additional amino acids are fused to the mature enzyme, such as a leader or secretory sequence or a sequence which is employed for purification of the mature enzyme or a proprotein sequence. Such fragments, derivatives and analogs are deemed to be within the scope of those skilled in the art from the teachings herein.

The enzymes and polynucleotides of the present invention are preferably provided in an isolated form, and preferably are purified to homogeneity.

The term "isolated" means that the material is removed from its original environment (e.g., the natural environment if it is naturally occurring). For example, a naturally-occurring polynucleotide or enzyme present in a living animal is not isolated, but the same polynucleotide or enzyme, separated from some or all of the coexisting materials in the natural system, is isolated. Such polynucleotides could be part of a vector and/or such polynucleotides or enzymes could be part of a composition, and still be isolated in that such vector or composition is not part of its natural environment.

The enzymes of the present invention include an enzyme of FIGS. 1-6 (in particular the mature enzyme) as well as enzymes which have at least 70% similarity (preferably at least 70% identity) to an enzyme of FIGS. 1-6 and more preferably at least 90% similarity (more preferably at least 90% identity) to an enzymes of FIGS. 1-6 and still more preferably at least 95% similarity (still more preferably at least 95% identity) to an enzyme of FIGS. 1-6 and also include portions of such enzymes with such portion of the enzyme generally containing at least 30 amino acids and more preferably at least 50 amino acids.

As known in the art "similarity" between two enzymes is determined by comparing the amino acid sequence and its conserved amino acid substitutes of one enzyme to the sequence of a second enzyme. Similarity may be determined by procedures which are well-known in the art, for example, a BLAST program (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool at the National Center for Biological Information).

A variant, i.e. a "fragment", "analog" or "derivative" enzyme, and reference enzyme may differ in amino acid sequence by one or more substitutions, additions, deletions, fusions and truncations, which may be present in any combination.

Among preferred variants are those that vary from a reference by conservative amino acid substitutions. Such substitutions are those that substitute a given amino acid in a polypeptide by another amino acid of like characteristics. Typically seen as conservative substitutions are the replacements, one for another, among the aliphatic amino acids Ala, Val, Leu and Ile; interchange of the hydroxyl residues Ser and Thr, exchange of the acidic residues Asp and Glu, substitution between the amide residues Asn and Gln, exchange of the basic residues Lys and Arg and replacements among the aromatic residues Phe, Tyr.

Most highly preferred are variants which retain the same biological function and activity as the reference polypeptide from which it varies.

Fragments or portions of the enzymes of the present invention may be employed for producing the corresponding full-length enzyme by peptide synthesis; therefore, the fragments may be employed as intermediates for producing the full-length enzymes. Fragments or portions of the polynucleotides of the present invention may be used to synthesize full-length polynucleotides of the present invention.

The present invention also relates to vectors which include polynucleotides of the present invention, host cells which are genetically engineered with vectors of the invention and the production of enzymes of the invention by recombinant techniques.

Host cells are genetically engineered (transduced or transformed or transfected) with the vectors containing the polynucleotides of this invention. Such vectors may be, for example, a cloning vector or an expression vector. The vector may be, for example, in the form of a plasmid, a viral particle, a phage, etc. The engineered host cells can be cultured in conventional nutrient media modified as appropriate for activating promoters, selecting transformants or amplifying the genes of the present invention. The culture conditions, such as temperature, pH and the like, are those previously used with the host cell selected for expression, and will be apparent to the ordinarily skilled artisan.

The polynucleotides of the present invention may be employed for producing enzymes by recombinant techniques. Thus, for example, the polynucleotide may be included in any one of a variety of expression vectors for expressing an enzyme. Such vectors include chromosomal, nonchromosomal and synthetic DNA sequences, e.g., derivatives of SV40; bacterial plasmids; phage DNA; baculovirus; yeast plasmids; vectors derived from combinations of plasmids and phage DNA, viral DNA such as vaccinia, adenovirus, fowl pox virus, and pseudorabies. However, any other vector may be used as long as it is replicable and viable in the host.

The appropriate DNA sequence may be inserted into the vector by a variety of procedures. In general, the DNA sequence is inserted into an appropriate restriction endonuclease site(s) by procedures known in the art. Such procedures and others are deemed to be within the scope of those skilled in the art.

The DNA sequence in the expression vector is operatively linked to an appropriate expression control sequence(s) (promoter) to direct mRNA synthesis. As representative examples of such promoters, there may be mentioned: LTR or SV40 promoter, the E. coli. lac or tip, the phage lambda P_(L) promoter and other promoters known to control expression of genes in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells or their viruses. The expression vector also contains a ribosome binding site for translation initiation and a transcription terminator. The vector may also include appropriate sequences for amplifying expression.

In addition, the expression vectors preferably contain one or more selectable marker genes to provide a phenotypic trait for selection of transformed host cells such as dihydrofolate reductase or neomycin resistance for eukaryotic cell culture, or such as tetracycline or ampicillin resistance in E. coli.

The vector containing the appropriate DNA sequence as hereinabove described, as well as an appropriate promoter or control sequence, may be employed to transform an appropriate host to permit the host to express the protein.

As representative examples of appropriate hosts, there may be mentioned: bacterial cells, such as E. coli, Streptomyces, Bacillus subtilis; fungal cells, such as yeast; insect cells such as Drosophila S2 and Spodoptera Sf9; animal cells such as CHO, COS or Bowes melanoma; adenoviruses; plant cells, etc. The selection of an appropriate host is deemed to be within the scope of those skilled in the art from the teachings herein.

More particularly, the present invention also includes recombinant constructs comprising one or more of the sequences as broadly described above. The constructs comprise a vector, such as a plasmid or viral vector, into which a sequence of the invention has been inserted, in a forward or reverse orientation. In a preferred aspect of this embodiment, the construct further comprises regulatory sequences, including, for example, a promoter, operably linked to the sequence. Large numbers of suitable vectors and promoters are known to those of skill in the art, and are commercially available. The following vectors are provided by way of example; Bacterial: pQE70, pQE60, pQE-9 (Qiagen), pBluescript II (Stratagene); pTRC99a, pKK223-3, pDR540, pRIT2T (Pharmacia); Eukaryotic: pXT1, pSG5 (Stratagene) pSVK3, pBPV, pMSG, pSVLSV40 (Pharmacia). However, any other plasmid or vector may be used as long as they are replicable and viable in the host.

Promoter regions can be selected from any desired gene using CAT (chloramphenicol transferase) vectors or other vectors with selectable markers. Two appropriate vectors are pKK232-8 and pCM7. Particular named bacterial promoters include lacI, lacZ, T3, T7, gpt, lambda P_(R), P_(L) and trp. Eukaryotic promoters include CMV immediate early, HSV thymidine kinase, early and late SV40, LTRs from retrovirus, and mouse metallothionein-I. Selection of the appropriate vector and promoter is well within the level of ordinary skill in the art.

In a further embodiment, the present invention relates to host cells containing the above-described constructs. The host cell can be a higher eukaryotic cell, such as a mammalian cell, or a lower eukaryotic cell, such as a yeast cell, or the host cell can be a prokaryotic cell, such as a bacterial cell. Introduction of the construct into the host cell can be effected by calcium phosphate transfection, DEAE-Dextran mediated transfection, or electroporation (Davis, L., Dibner, M., Battey, I., Basic Methods in Molecular Biology, (1986)).

The constructs in host cells can be used in a conventional manner to produce the gene product encoded by the recombinant sequence. Alternatively, the enzymes of the invention can be synthetically produced by conventional peptide synthesizers.

Mature proteins can be expressed in mammalian cells, yeast, bacteria, or other cells under the control of appropriate promoters. Cell-free translation systems can also be employed to produce such proteins using RNAs derived from the DNA constructs of the present invention. Appropriate cloning and expression vectors for use with prokaryotic and eukaryotic hosts are described by Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., (1989), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.

Transcription of the DNA encoding the enzymes of the present invention by higher eukaryotes is increased by inserting an enhancer sequence into the vector. Enhancers are cis-acting elements of DNA, usually about from 10 to 300 bp that act on a promoter to increase its transcription. Examples include the SV40 enhancer on the late side of the replication origin bp 100 to 270, a cytomegalovirus early promoter enhancer, the polyoma enhancer on the late side of the replication origin, and adenovirus enhancers.

Generally, recombinant expression vectors will include origins of replication and selectable markers permitting transformation of the host cell, e.g., the ampicillin resistance gene of E. coli and S. cerevisiae TRP1 gene, and a promoter derived from a highly-expressed gene to direct transcription of a downstream structural sequence. Such promoters can be derived from operons encoding glycolytic enzymes such as 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), Å-factor, acid phosphatase, or heat shock proteins, among others. The heterologous structural sequence is assembled in appropriate phase with translation initiation and termination sequences, and preferably, a leader sequence capable of directing secretion of translated enzyme. Optionally, the heterologous sequence can encode a fusion enzyme including an N-terminal identification peptide imparting desired characteristics, e.g., stabilization or simplified purification of expressed recombinant product.

Useful expression vectors for bacterial use are constructed by inserting a structural DNA sequence encoding a desired protein together with suitable translation initiation and termination signals in operable reading phase with a functional promoter. The vector will comprise one or more phenotypic selectable markers and an origin of replication to ensure maintenance of the vector and to, if desirable, provide amplification within the host. Suitable prokaryotic hosts for transformation include E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella typhimurium and various species within the genera Pseudomonas, Streptomyces, and Staphylococcus, although others may also be employed as a matter of choice.

As a representative but nonlimiting example, useful expression vectors for bacterial use can comprise a selectable marker and bacterial origin of replication derived from commercially available plasmids comprising genetic elements of the well known cloning vector pBR322 (ATCC 37017). Such commercial vectors include, for example, pKK223-3 (Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, Uppsala, Sweden) and GEM1 (Promega Biotec, Madison, Wis., USA). These pBR322 "backbone" sections are combined with an appropriate promoter and the structural sequence to be expressed.

Following transformation of a suitable host strain and growth of the host strain to an appropriate cell density, the selected promoter is induced by appropriate means (e.g., temperature shift or chemical induction) and cells are cultured for an additional period.

Cells are typically harvested by centrifugation, disrupted by physical or chemical means, and the resulting crude extract retained for further purification.

Microbial cells employed in expression of proteins can be disrupted by any convenient method, including freeze-thaw cycling, sonication, mechanical disruption, or use of cell lysing agents, such methods are well known to those skilled in the art.

Various mammalian cell culture systems can also be employed to express recombinant protein. Examples of mammalian expression systems include the COS-7 lines of monkey kidney fibroblasts, described by Gluzman, Cell, 23:175 (1981), and other cell lines capable of expressing a compatible vector, for example, the C127, 3T3, CHO, HeLa and BHK cell lines. Mammalian expression vectors will comprise an origin of replication, a suitable promoter and enhancer, and also any necessary ribosome binding sites, polyadenylation site, splice donor and acceptor sites, transcriptional termination sequences, and 5' flanking nontranscribed sequences. DNA sequences derived from the SV40 splice, and polyadenylation sites may be used to provide the required nontranscribed genetic elements.

The enzyme can be recovered and purified from recombinant cell cultures by methods including ammonium sulfate or ethanol precipitation, acid extraction, anion or cation exchange chromatography, phosphocellulose chromatography, hydrophobic interaction chromatography, affinity chromatography, hydroxylapatite chromatography and lectin chromatography. Protein refolding steps can be used, as necessary, in completing configuration of the mature protein. Finally, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can be employed for final purification steps.

The enzymes of the present invention may be a naturally purified product, or a product of chemical synthetic procedures, or produced by recombinant techniques from a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host (for example, by bacterial, yeast, higher plant, insect and mammalian cells in culture). Depending upon the host employed in a recombinant production procedure, the enzymes of the present invention may be glycosylated or may be non-glycosylated. Enzymes of the invention may or may not also include an initial methionine amino acid residue.

The enzyme of this invention may be employed for any purpose in which such enzyme activity is necessary or desired. In a preferred embodiment the enzyme is employed for catalyzing DNA synthesis by addition of deoxynucleotides to the 3' end of a polynucleotide chain, using a complementary polynucleotide strand as a template.

In a preferred embodiment, the enzyme of the present invention is a thermostable enzyme which is stable to heat and is heat resistant and polymerizes DNA, i.e., the enzyme is able to renature and regain activity after a brief (i.e., 5 to 30 seconds), or longer period, for example, minutes or hours, exposure to temperatures of up to 70° C. and has a temperature optimum above 60° C.

The enzymes, their fragments or other derivatives, or analogs thereof, or cells expressing them can be used as an immunogen to produce antibodies thereto. These antibodies can be, for example, polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies. The present invention also includes chimeric, single chain, and humanized antibodies, as well as Fab fragments, or the product of an Fab expression library. Various procedures known in the art may be used for the production of such antibodies and fragments.

Antibodies generated against the enzymes corresponding to a sequence of the present invention can be obtained by direct injection of the enzymes into an animal or by administering the enzymes to an animal, preferably a nonhuman. The antibody so obtained will then bind the enzymes itself. In this manner, even a sequence encoding only a fragment of the enzymes can be used to generate antibodies binding the whole native enzymes. Such antibodies can then be used to isolate the enzyme from cells expressing that enzyme.

For preparation of monoclonal antibodies, any technique which provides antibodies produced by continuous cell line cultures can be used. Examples include the hybridoma technique (Kohler and Milstein, 1975, Nature, 256:495-497), the trioma technique, the human B-cell hybridoma technique (Kozbor et al., 1983, Immunology Today 4:72), and the EBV-hybridoma technique to produce human monoclonal antibodies (Cole, et al., 1985, in Monoclonal Antibodies and Cancer Therapy, Alan R. Liss, Inc., pp. 77-96).

Techniques described for the production of single chain antibodies (U.S. Pat. No. 4,946,778) can be adapted to produce single chain antibodies to immunogenic enzyme products of this invention. Also, transgenic mice may be used to express humanized antibodies to immunogenic enzyme products of this invention.

Antibodies generated against the enzyme of the present invention may be used in screening for similar enzymes from other organisms and samples. Such screening techniques are known in the art, for example, one such screening assay is described in "Methods for Measuring Cellulase Activities", Methods in Enzymology, Vol 160, pp. 87-116, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Antibodies may also be employed as a probe to screen gene libraries generated from this or other organisms to identify this or cross reactive activities.

Isolation and purification of polypeptides produced in the systems described above can be carried out using conventional methods, appropriate for the particular system. For example, preparative chromatography and immunological separations employing antibodies, such as monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies, can be used.

The term "antibody," as used herein, refers to intact immunoglobulin molecules, as well as fragments of immunoglobulin molecules, such as Fab, Fab', (Fab')₂, Fv, and SCA fragments, that are capable of binding to an epitope of a polymerase polypeptide. These antibody fragments, which retain some ability to selectively bind to the antigen (e.g., a polymerase antigen) of the antibody from which they are derived, can be made using well known methods in the art (see, e.g., Harlow and Lane, supra), and are described further, as follows.

(1) A Fab fragment consists of a monovalent antigen-binding fragment of an antibody molecule, and can be produced by digestion of a whole antibody molecule with the enzyme papain, to yield a fragment consisting of an intact light chain and a portion of a heavy chain.

(2) A Fab' fragment of an antibody molecule can be obtained by treating a whole antibody molecule with pepsin, followed by reduction, to yield a molecule consisting of an intact light chain and a portion of a heavy chain. Two Fab' fragments are obtained per antibody molecule treated in this manner.

(3) A (Fab')₂ fragment of an antibody can be obtained by treating a whole antibody molecule with the enzyme pepsin, without subsequent reduction. A (Fab')₂ fragment is a dimer of two Fab' fragments, held together by two disulfide bonds.

(4) An Fv fragment is defined as a genetically engineered fragment containing the variable region of a light chain and the variable region of a heavy chain expressed as two chains.

(5) A single chain antibody ("SCA") is a genetically engineered single chain molecule containing the variable region of a light chain and the variable region of a heavy chain, linked by a suitable, flexible polypeptide linker.

As used in this invention, the term "epitope" refers to an antigenic determinant on an antigen, such as a polymerase polypeptide, to which the paratope of an antibody, such as a polymerase-specific antibody, binds. Antigenic determinants usually consist of chemically active surface groupings of molecules, such as amino acids or sugar side chains, and can have specific three-dimensional structural characteristics, as well as specific charge characteristics.

As is mentioned above, antigens that can be used in producing polymerase-specific antibodies include polymerase polypeptides, e.g., any of the polymerases shown in FIGS. 1-X polypeptide fragments. The polypeptide or peptide used to immunize an animal can be obtained by standard recombinant, chemical synthetic, or purification methods. As is well known in the art, in order to increase immunogenicity, an antigen can be conjugated to a carrier protein. Commonly used carriers include keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), thyroglobulin, bovine serum albumin (BSA), and tetanus toxoid. The coupled peptide is then used to immunize the animal (e.g., a mouse, a rat, or a rabbit). In addition to such carriers, well known adjuvants can be administered with the antigen to facilitate induction of a strong immune response.

Polymerase-specific polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies can be purified, for example, by binding to, and elution from, a matrix containing a polymerase polypeptide, e.g., the polymerase polypeptide (or fragment thereof) to which the antibodies were raised. Additional methods for antibody purification and concentration are well known in the art and can be practiced with the polymerase-specific antibodies of the invention (see, for example, Coligan, et al., Unit 9, Current Protocols in Immunology, Wiley Interscience, 1994).

Anti-idiotype antibodies corresponding to polymerase-specific antigens are also included in the invention, and can be produced using standard methods. These antibodies are raised to polymerase-specific antibodies, and thus mimic polymerase-specific epitopes.

The members of a pair of molecules (e.g., an antibody-antigen pair or a nucleic acid pair) are said to "specifically bind" to each other if they bind to each other with greater affinity than to other, non-specific molecules. For example, an antibody raised against an antigen to which it binds more efficiently than to a non-specific protein can be described as specifically binding to the antigen. (Similarly, a nucleic acid probe can be described as specifically binding to a nucleic acid target if it forms a specific duplex with the target by base pairing interactions (see above).)

The present invention is further described with reference to the following examples; however, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to such examples. All parts or amounts, unless otherwise specified, are by weight.

In one aspect of the invention, a method for producing a polymerase enzyme, such as those shown in FIGS. 1-6, is provided. The method includes growing a host cell which contains a polynucleotide encoding the enzyme (e.g., SEQ ID Nos:2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12), under conditions which allow the expression of the nucleic acid, and isolating the enzyme encoded by the nucleic acid. Methods of culturing the host cell are described in the Examples and are known by those of skill in the art.

In order to facilitate understanding of the following examples certain frequently occurring methods and/or terms will be described.

"Plasmids" are designated by a lower case p preceded and/or followed by capital letters and/or numbers. The starting plasmids herein are either commercially available, publicly available on an unrestricted basis, or can be constructed from available plasmids in accord with published procedures. In addition, equivalent plasmids to those described are known in the art and will be apparent to the ordinarily skilled artisan.

"Digestion" of DNA refers to catalytic cleavage of the DNA with a restriction enzyme that acts only at certain sequences in the DNA. The various restriction enzymes used herein are commercially available and their other requirements were used as would be known to the ordinarily skilled artisan. For analytical purposes, typically 1 og of plasmid or DNA fragment is used with about 2 units of enzyme in about 20 ol of buffer solution. For the purpose of isolating DNA fragments for plasmid construction, typically 5 to 50 og of DNA are digested with 20 to 250 units of enzyme in a larger volume. Appropriate buffers and substrate amounts for particular restriction enzymes are specified by the manufacturer. Incubation times of about 1 hour at 37° C. are ordinarily used, but may vary in accordance with the supplier's instructions. After digestion the reaction is electrophoresed directly on a polyacrylamide gel to isolate the desired fragment.

Size separation of the cleaved fragments is generally performed using 8 percent polyacrylamide gel described by Goeddel, D. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 8:4057 (1980), for example.

"Oligonucleotides" refers to either a single stranded polydeoxynucleotide or two complementary polydeoxynucleotide strands which may be chemically synthesized. Such synthetic oligonucleotides may or may not have a 5' phosphate. Those that do not will not ligate to another oligonucleotide without adding a phosphate with an ATP in the presence of a kinase. A synthetic oligonucleotide will ligate to a fragment that has not been dephosphorylated.

"Ligation" refers to the process of forming phosphodiester bonds between two double stranded nucleic acid fragments (Maniatis, T., et al., Id., p. 146). Unless otherwise provided, ligation may be accomplished using known buffers and conditions with 10 units of T4 DNA ligase ("ligase") per 0.5 (g of approximately equimolar amounts of the DNA fragments to be ligated.

Unless otherwise stated, transformation was performed as described in the method of Sambrook, Fritsch and Maniatis, 1989. The following examples are intended to illustrate, but not to limit, the invention. While the procedures described in the examples are typical of those that can be used to carry out certain aspects of the invention, other procedures known to those skilled in the art can also be used. The following materials and methods were used in carrying out the experiments described in the examples.

EXAMPLE 1 DNA Isolation and Library Construction

The following outlines the procedures used to generate a gene library from a sample.

Isolate DNA.

IsoQuick Procedure as per manufacturer's instructions (Orca, Research Inc., Bothell, Wash.).

Shear DNA

Vigorously push and pull DNA through a 25G double-hub needle and 1-cc syringes about 500 times.

Check a small amount (0.5 μg) on a 0.8% agarose gel to make sure the majority of the DNA is in the desired size range (about 3-6 kb).

Blunt DNA

Add:

H₂ O to a final volume of 405 μl

45 μl 10× Mung Bean Buffer

2.0 μl Mung Bean Nuclease (150 u/μl)

Incubate 37° C., 15 minutes.

Phenol/chloroform extract once.

Chloroform extract once.

Add 1 ml ice cold ethanol to precipitate.

Place on ice for 10 minutes.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 30 minutes.

Wash with 1 ml 70% ethanol.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 10 minutes and dry.

Methylate DNA

Gently resuspend DNA in 26 μl TE. Add:

4.0 μl 10× EcoR I Methylase Buffer

0.5 μl SAM (32 mM)

5.0 μl EcoR I Methylase (40 u/μl)

Incubate 37°, 1 hour.

Insure Blunt Ends

Add to the methylation reaction:

5.0 μl 100 mM MgCl₂

8.0 μl dNTP mix (2.5 mM of each dGTP, dATP, dTTP, dCTP)

4.0 μl Klenow (5 u/μl)

Incubate 12° C., 30 minutes.

Add 450 μl 1× STE.

Phenol/chloroform extract once.

Chloroform extract once.

Add 1 ml ice cold ethanol to precipitate and place on ice for 10 minutes.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 30 minutes.

Wash with 1 ml 70% ethanol.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 10 minutes and dry.

Adaptor Ligation

Gently resuspend DNA in 8 μl EcoR I adaptors (from Stratagene's cDNA Synthesis Kit). Add:

1.0 μl 10× Ligation Buffer

1.0 μl 10 mM rATP

1.0 μI T4 DNA Ligase (4 u/μl)

Incubate 4° C., 2 days.

Phosphorylate Adaptors

Heat kill ligation reaction 70° C., 30 minutes. Add:

1.0 μl 10× Ligation Buffer

2.0 μl 10 mM rATP

6.0 μl H₂ O

1.0 μl Polynucleotide kinase (PNK)

Incubate 37° C., 30 minutes.

Add 31 μl H₂ O and 5 μl 10× STE.

Size fractionate on a Sephacryl S-500 spin column (pool fractions 1-3).

Phenol/chloroform extract once.

Chloroform extract once.

Add ice cold ethanol to precipitate.

Place on ice, 10 minutes.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 30 minutes.

Wash with 1 ml 70% ethanol.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 10 minutes and dry.

Resuspend in 10.5 μl TE buffer.

Do not plate assay. Instead, ligate directly to arms as above except use 2.5 μl of DNA and no water.

Sucrose Gradient (2.2 ml) Size Fractionation

Heat sample to 65° C., 10 minutes.

Gently load on 2.2 ml sucrose gradient.

Spin in mini-ultracentrifuge, 45K, 20° C., 4 hours (no brake).

Collect fractions by puncturing the bottom of the gradient tube with a 20G needle and allowing the sucrose to flow through the needle. Collect the first 20 drops in a Falcon 2059 tube then collect 10 1-drop fractions (labelled 1-10). Each drop is about 60 μl in volume.

Run 5 μl of each fraction on a 0.8% agarose gel to check the size.

Pool fractions 1-4 (about 10-1.5 kb) and, in a separate tube, pool fractions 5-7 (about 5-0.5 kb).

Add 1 ml ice cold ethanol to precipitate and place on ice for 10 minutes.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 30 minutes.

Wash with 1 ml 70% ethanol.

Spin in microfuge, high speed, 10 minutes and dry.

Resuspend each in 10 μl TE buffer.

Test Ligation to Lambda Arms

Plate assay to get an approximate concentration. Spot 0.5 μl of the sample on agarose containing ethidium bromide along with standards (DNA samples of known concentration). View in UV light and estimate concentration compared to the standards. Fraction 1-4=>1.0 μg/μl. Fraction 5-7=500 ng/μl.

Prepare the following ligation reactions (5 μl reactions) and incubate 4° C., overnight:

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Test Package and Plate

Package the ligation reactions following manufacturer's protocol.

Stop packaging reactions with 500 μl SM buffer and pool packaging that came from the same ligation.

Titer 1.0 μl of each on appropriate host (OD₆₀₀ =1.0) XLI-Blue MRF!

Add 200 μl host (in mM MgSO₄) to Falcon 2059 tubes

Inoculate with 1 μl packaged phage

Incubate 37° C., 15 minutes

Add about 3 ml 48° C. top agar

50 ml stock containing 150 μl IPTG (0.5M) and 300 μl X-GAL (350 mg/ml)!

Plate on 100 mm plates and incubate 37° C., overnight.

Amplification of Libraries (5.0×10⁵ recombinants from each library)

Add 3.0 ml host cells (OD₆₀₀ =1.0) to two 50 ml conical tube.

Inoculate with 2.5×10⁵ pfu per conical tube.

Incubate 37° C., 20 minutes.

Add top agar to each tube to a final volume of 45 ml.

Plate the tube across five 150 mm plates.

Incubate 37° C, 6-8 hours or until plaques are about pin-head in size.

Overlay with 8-10 ml SM Buffer and place at 4° C. overnight (with gentle rocking if possible).

Harvest Phage

Recover phage suspension by pouring the SM buffer off each plate into a 50 ml conical tube.

Add 3 ml chloroform, shake vigorously and incubate at room temperature, 15 minutes.

Centrifuge at 2K rpm, 10 minutes to remove cell debris.

Pour supernatant into a sterile flask, add 500 μl chloroform.

Store at 4° C.

Titer Amplified Library

Make serial dilutions:

10⁻⁵ =1 μl amplified phage in 1 ml SM Buffer

10⁻⁶ =1 μl of the 10³ dilution in 1 ml SM Buffer

Add 200 μl host (in 10 mM MgSO₄) to two tubes.

Inoculate one with 10 μl 10⁻⁶ dilution (10⁻⁵).

Inoculate the other with 1 μl 10⁻⁶ dilution (10⁻⁶).

Incubate 37° C., 15 minutes.

Add about 3 ml 48° C. top agar.

50 ml stock containing 150 μl IPTG (0.5M) and 375 μl X-GAL (350 mg/ml)!

Plate on 100 mm plates and incubate 37° C., overnight.

Excise the ZAP II library to create the pBluescript library according to manufacturers protocols (Stratagene).

EXAMPLE 2 Activated Calf Thymus DNA Polymerase Assay

Streak out the clone to isolation:

1. Inoculate 5 ml LB/Amp/Meth/Kan culture with isolated clone

2. Grow to turbidity

3. Inoculate a 50 ml culture of LB/Amp/Meth/Kan

Grow to OD600 of 0.7 to 0.9; induce culture with IPTG at a final concentration of 1 mM for 3 hours

Centrifuge at 4500 RPM for 20 minutes and discard supernate

Resuspend pellet in 3 mls of 20 mM Tris pH 8.0 and sonicate twice for 1 minute each

Microcentrifuge 1 ml of sonicate for 30 minutes at 4° C.

Remove 1 ul of the sonicate supernatent and add to 10 μl of the following Activated

Calf Thymus Reaction Cocktail in a 0.5 ml eppendorf:

5 units/ml activated calf thymus DNA (Pharmacia 27-4575-01)

1 mMDTT

40 mg/ml BSA

50 uM dATP, 50 uM dCTP, 50 uM dGTP, 5 uM dTTP

50 mM Tris pH 7.6

5 mM MgCl2

50 μCi/ml H³ -dTTP

bring to volume with H2O

Incubate at 70° C. for 10-30 minutes

Stop reaction by cooling the tube

Spot sample onto Whatman DE-81 filter paper (catalog#3658-323)

Dry completely

Wash filters in 2× SSC five times for 2 minutes each

Final wash in 100% ethanol to remove most of remaining water

Allow the filters to dry to completion

Count incorporation of H³ -dTTP using a scintillation counter

The incorporation of nucleotides by the polymerase is proportional to counts, by at least five fold over background. (Maki,H, et al, J.Biol.Chem. (1988) 263:6570-6578 and Tabor, et al, U.S. Pat. No. 4795699).

EXAMPLE 3 PCR Screening

Polymerase sequences from Thermococcus litoralis, Pyrococcus GB-D (Deep Vent), and Pyrococcus furiosus were scanned to determine conserved regions. The following nucleic acid sequences were identified and corresponding amino acid sequences were utilized to derive degenerate oligonucleotide primers to be used in downstream screening:

Thermococcus litoralis: 37-45, 1045-1051

Pyrococcus GB-D (Deep Vent): 37-45, 1042-1049

Pyrococcus furiosus: 37-45, 505-512

The following corresponding amino acid sequences were used to produce degenerate oligonucleotide primers:

YIYALL^(K) /RDD

WY^(C) /SKECAE

The primers have been labeled Poldgen1 forward and Poldgen2 reverse:

Poldgen1 forward (26mer): 5'-TA^(C) /TAT^(A) /TTA^(C) /TGCTCT^(C) /TCTCA^(A) /GAGATGA-3'

Poldgen2 reverse (23mer): 5'-TC^(A) /TGC^(A) /GCA^(C) /TTC^(C) /TTTACA^(A) /GTACCA-3'

These primers were used to amplify potential polymerase genes directly from genomic DNA (Template DNA).

100 μl PCR conditions:

1 μl Poldgen1 forward (500 ng/μl)

1 μl Poldgen2 reverse (500 ng/μl)

1 μl 25 mM dNTP mix

1 μl Template DNA (˜100 ng/μl)

1 μl TaqPlus Polymerase (Stratagene)

10 μl 10× low salt reaction buffer (Stratagene)

85 μl H₂ O

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PCR products (1.4 kb bands from both organisms) were phenol chloroform extracted (ref. Maniatis) and cloned using the TA cloning system into the pGemT PCR Cloning Vector (Promega) using the following ligation reaction:

0.5 μl pGemT Cloning Vector (50 ng/μl)

2 μl PCR Product (˜1000 ng/μl)

2 μl rATP (10 mM)

2 μl 10× T4 Ligase Buffer

1 μl T4 Ligase

12.5 μl H₂ O

Incubate 4° C. overnight.

2.5 μl of the above reaction was transformed into XL1-Blue MRF' competent cells (Stratagene)

1.4 kb PCR products were also restriction analyzed using the appropriate restriction enzymes:

Potential clones were verified by restriction analysis and sequenced.

BLASTX and BLASTN database comparisons of the sequences indicated whether the sequences were homologous to the nucleic acid sequence of a known polymerase from another organism. Amplification primers were then generated to both ends of the known polymerase gene, and were used in an amplification reaction on the genomic DNA in an attempt to pull out a full length polymerase gene from this organism. These primers include restriction sites and a new Ribosome Binding Site for downstream processing of the gene:

PCR Conditions:

1 μl forward primer (250 ng/μl)

1 μl reverse primer (250 ng/μl)

1 μl 25 mM dNTP

1 μl template DNA (100 ng/μl)

1 μl Taq polymerase

10 μl 10× Taq Buffer

85 μl H₂ O

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Gene Library Screening

PCR products generated in the above reactions (using degenerate primers) were used to make long "run off" single stranded DNA probes using (P³² as a label).

The genomic library was screened using the single stranded (P³² labeled probe. Hybridization conditions for these screenings were as per Maniatis (maximum stringency for aqueous solutions; 68° C. in rolling hybridization chamber).

All positive clones were then excised into pBluescript SK and sequenced.

EXAMPLE 4 Expression

Positive clones were identified and isolated from the genomic library by the above methods. DNA from the clones were then used as templates in a 100 ul PCR reaction. DNA encoding the enzymes of the present invention were initially amplified from a pBluescript vector containing the DNA by the PCR technique. The amplified sequences were then inserted into a PQE vector and the enzyme was expressed according to the protocols set forth herein.

The pQE vector (Qiagen, Inc. Chatsworth, Calif.) encodes antibiotic resistance (Amp^(r)), a bacterial origin of replication (ori), an IPTG-regulatable promoter operator (P/O), a ribosome binding site (RBS), a 6-His tag and restriction enzyme sites.

The pQE vector was digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The amplified sequences were ligated into the respective pQE vector and inserted in frame with the sequence encoding for the RBS. The ligation mixture was then used to transform the E. coli strain M15/pREP4 (Qiagen, Inc.) by electroporation. M15/pREP4 contains multiple copies of the plasmid pREP4, which expresses the lacI repressor and also confers kanamycin resistance (Kan^(r)). Transformants were identified by their ability to grow on LB plates and ampicillin/kanamycin resistant colonies were selected. Plasmid DNA was isolated and confirmed by restriction analysis. Clones containing the desired constructs were grown overnight (O/N) in liquid culture in LB media supplemented with both Amp (100 μg/ml) and Kan (25 μg/ml). The O/N culture was used to inoculate a large culture at a ratio of 1:100 to 1:250. The cells were grown to an optical density 600 (O.D.⁶⁰⁰) of between 0.4 and 0.6. IPTG ("Isopropyl-B-D-thiogalacto pyranoside") was then added to a final concentration of 1 mM. IPTG induces by inactivating the lacI repressor, clearing the P/O leading to increased gene expression. Cells were grown an extra 3 to 4 hours. Cells were then harvested by centrifugation.

Numerous modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings and, therefore, within the scope of the appended claims, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as particularly described. It is to be understood that, while the invention has been described with reference to the above detailed description, the foregoing description is intended to illustrate, but not to limit, the scope of the invention. Other aspects, advantages, and modifications of the invention are within the scope of the following claims. All publications, patent applications, patents, and other referenced mentioned herein are incorporated by reference in their entirety.

    __________________________________________________________________________     #             SEQUENCE LISTING                                                 - <160> NUMBER OF SEQ ID NOS: 12                                               - <210> SEQ ID NO 1                                                            <211> LENGTH: 2607                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Ammonifex degensii                                             <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(2604)                                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 1                                                            - gtg aag gga aaa acc ttg ctc ctt ttg gac gg - #c tcg agc ata gcc tac            48                                                                           Val Lys Gly Lys Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Asp Gl - #y Ser Ser Ile Ala Tyr            #                 15                                                           - cgg gcc ttt ttc gcc ctt ccc tcc ctc cgc ac - #c cgt acc ggc ctg ccc            96                                                                           Arg Ala Phe Phe Ala Leu Pro Ser Leu Arg Th - #r Arg Thr Gly Leu Pro            #             30                                                               - acc ggt gcc gtg tac ggc ttt acc tcc atg ct - #c ttc aaa gtg ctg gaa           144                                                                           Thr Gly Ala Val Tyr Gly Phe Thr Ser Met Le - #u Phe Lys Val Leu Glu            #         45                                                                   - gaa agg cgt ccc acg gcc ata gtg gcg gct tt - #c gat aaa agc aag acc           192                                                                           Glu Arg Arg Pro Thr Ala Ile Val Ala Ala Ph - #e Asp Lys Ser Lys Thr            #     60                                                                       - acc ttc cgg cac gcc ctg gcg gag acc tac aa - #g gcc cac cgc ccc gcc           240                                                                           Thr Phe Arg His Ala Leu Ala Glu Thr Tyr Ly - #s Ala His Arg Pro Ala            # 80                                                                           - act ccg gat gaa ctg cgc cag cag ttc aac ct - #c atc aag gaa gtg ctg           288                                                                           Thr Pro Asp Glu Leu Arg Gln Gln Phe Asn Le - #u Ile Lys Glu Val Leu            #                 95                                                           - act gcc ctc aac gtt ccg gta gtg gaa aag ga - #g ggt ttt gag gcc gac           336                                                                           Thr Ala Leu Asn Val Pro Val Val Glu Lys Gl - #u Gly Phe Glu Ala Asp            #           110                                                                - gac ctc atc ggc act ctg gta gac cgg gcg ga - #a aaa gag ggt tgg cag           384                                                                           Asp Leu Ile Gly Thr Leu Val Asp Arg Ala Gl - #u Lys Glu Gly Trp Gln            #       125                                                                    - tgc ctt atc gtc acc ggc gac ctc gac gcc ct - #g cag ctg gtt tcc ccc           432                                                                           Cys Leu Ile Val Thr Gly Asp Leu Asp Ala Le - #u Gln Leu Val Ser Pro            #   140                                                                        - ctc acc acc gtc gtc ctc atg cgc aag ggg at - #a agc gaa ata gcg gtc           480                                                                           Leu Thr Thr Val Val Leu Met Arg Lys Gly Il - #e Ser Glu Ile Ala Val            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - ttt aac gag gcg gag gtg aaa cgc cgc ttc gg - #c gtc aca ccc cgc caa           528                                                                           Phe Asn Glu Ala Glu Val Lys Arg Arg Phe Gl - #y Val Thr Pro Arg Gln            #               175                                                            - ctc ccc gac ttc aaa gcc ttg gcc gga gat gc - #c tcg gac aac atc ccc           576                                                                           Leu Pro Asp Phe Lys Ala Leu Ala Gly Asp Al - #a Ser Asp Asn Ile Pro            #           190                                                                - ggg ctt ccg ggc ata ggg ccc aaa act gcc tc - #c cgt ctg cta cag tcc           624                                                                           Gly Leu Pro Gly Ile Gly Pro Lys Thr Ala Se - #r Arg Leu Leu Gln Ser            #       205                                                                    - cac cag agc ctg gag aaa ttg ctg gag agc aa - #g gaa ttt ttt ccg gcc           672                                                                           His Gln Ser Leu Glu Lys Leu Leu Glu Ser Ly - #s Glu Phe Phe Pro Ala            #   220                                                                        - aag ctg cgc gaa acc tta gaa agg cac aag ga - #a gaa gcg gtt ttg gcc           720                                                                           Lys Leu Arg Glu Thr Leu Glu Arg His Lys Gl - #u Glu Ala Val Leu Ala            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - aag aaa ctg gcc ctc atc cgc cgc gat gtg cc - #g ctg gaa gag gag atc           768                                                                           Lys Lys Leu Ala Leu Ile Arg Arg Asp Val Pr - #o Leu Glu Glu Glu Ile            #               255                                                            - atc cgg ccc tgg ccg gga ccc aac att tta gc - #c acg ctg gag gtc ttc           816                                                                           Ile Arg Pro Trp Pro Gly Pro Asn Ile Leu Al - #a Thr Leu Glu Val Phe            #           270                                                                - tcg cgc ctg gaa ttc cgc acc ttg gcc aag ag - #a ttc ctc gag ctt ttc           864                                                                           Ser Arg Leu Glu Phe Arg Thr Leu Ala Lys Ar - #g Phe Leu Glu Leu Phe            #       285                                                                    - ccc gag gca cgc ctc ctg tcc gcc agt ggc ct - #t acc ccc tcc gct gtc           912                                                                           Pro Glu Ala Arg Leu Leu Ser Ala Ser Gly Le - #u Thr Pro Ser Ala Val            #   300                                                                        - cgc gta aag gta gaa aga ccc gaa gaa cta ga - #a aga ctg ggg gaa gag           960                                                                           Arg Val Lys Val Glu Arg Pro Glu Glu Leu Gl - #u Arg Leu Gly Glu Glu            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - ctc gga agg caa gaa ttt gcg gcc ctg gct ta - #c ccc ccc gtt ctt cgg          1008                                                                           Leu Gly Arg Gln Glu Phe Ala Ala Leu Ala Ty - #r Pro Pro Val Leu Arg            #               335                                                            - cgc aaa gcc act tct tct ttc ttg gct ctc tg - #t ctg gga ggg gaa aag          1056                                                                           Arg Lys Ala Thr Ser Ser Phe Leu Ala Leu Cy - #s Leu Gly Gly Glu Lys            #           350                                                                - gtc ttc ctg ctg gaa ggg ccg gag gtg ctc aa - #g agc ttc ttc cgg ctg          1104                                                                           Val Phe Leu Leu Glu Gly Pro Glu Val Leu Ly - #s Ser Phe Phe Arg Leu            #       365                                                                    - ctc gaa gaa aag gga ggt ctt gtc agt acc ta - #c gac gct aaa tcc tgc          1152                                                                           Leu Glu Glu Lys Gly Gly Leu Val Ser Thr Ty - #r Asp Ala Lys Ser Cys            #   380                                                                        - ctt cac gcc ctg gaa cct tac ggc ttc aag cc - #c gaa atg atc ggg ttt          1200                                                                           Leu His Ala Leu Glu Pro Tyr Gly Phe Lys Pr - #o Glu Met Ile Gly Phe            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - gac gtc ctg ctg gca gcc tac ctg gtg aac cc - #c gcc gcc aac aac gaa          1248                                                                           Asp Val Leu Leu Ala Ala Tyr Leu Val Asn Pr - #o Ala Ala Asn Asn Glu            #               415                                                            - ctg ggg gcg atc gcc ttc gag cac gcg ggc tt - #t atg ctc tcc ccg gga          1296                                                                           Leu Gly Ala Ile Ala Phe Glu His Ala Gly Ph - #e Met Leu Ser Pro Gly            #           430                                                                - gca gag ctc ccg gaa aaa gcc cag gcg atc ta - #c cag ctc acc ccc atc          1344                                                                           Ala Glu Leu Pro Glu Lys Ala Gln Ala Ile Ty - #r Gln Leu Thr Pro Ile            #       445                                                                    - cta aaa agt aag att aag ctt cag gaa cag ga - #g tac ctt tat tac tcc          1392                                                                           Leu Lys Ser Lys Ile Lys Leu Gln Glu Gln Gl - #u Tyr Leu Tyr Tyr Ser            #   460                                                                        - gtg gag ctt ccc tta gcc gcc gtc ttg gcc ga - #c atg gag aaa gtc ggg          1440                                                                           Val Glu Leu Pro Leu Ala Ala Val Leu Ala As - #p Met Glu Lys Val Gly            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - gtg aaa gtt tcg gag gaa agg ctg cgt tct ct - #c tcc aag gag ctg gga          1488                                                                           Val Lys Val Ser Glu Glu Arg Leu Arg Ser Le - #u Ser Lys Glu Leu Gly            #               495                                                            - gag cag ctg gct cag ctt tcc gag gaa atc ta - #t aag ctc gcc ggc gag          1536                                                                           Glu Gln Leu Ala Gln Leu Ser Glu Glu Ile Ty - #r Lys Leu Ala Gly Glu            #           510                                                                - cgc ttc aac ctg aat tcc ccc cgc cag ctc gg - #c tac atc ctg ttc gag          1584                                                                           Arg Phe Asn Leu Asn Ser Pro Arg Gln Leu Gl - #y Tyr Ile Leu Phe Glu            #       525                                                                    - aag ttg gga ctc aaa ccg gtc aag aag acc aa - #a acc ggc tac tcc acc          1632                                                                           Lys Leu Gly Leu Lys Pro Val Lys Lys Thr Ly - #s Thr Gly Tyr Ser Thr            #   540                                                                        - gac gct tcg gtc cta gaa aag cta gcc gag ca - #c gag atc gtg gct aag          1680                                                                           Asp Ala Ser Val Leu Glu Lys Leu Ala Glu Hi - #s Glu Ile Val Ala Lys            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - gtg ctc gtc tac cgg cag ctg gcc aaa cta aa - #g agc act tac acc gac          1728                                                                           Val Leu Val Tyr Arg Gln Leu Ala Lys Leu Ly - #s Ser Thr Tyr Thr Asp            #               575                                                            - gca ctt cca gag ctc atc gac ccg gcc acc gg - #g cgc ctg cac acc acc          1776                                                                           Ala Leu Pro Glu Leu Ile Asp Pro Ala Thr Gl - #y Arg Leu His Thr Thr            #           590                                                                - ttc ttg cag gca ggg acg gca acg gga aga ct - #g gcc tcc gcc gag ccc          1824                                                                           Phe Leu Gln Ala Gly Thr Ala Thr Gly Arg Le - #u Ala Ser Ala Glu Pro            #       605                                                                    - aac ctg cag aac att ccc gta cgc gat tct ct - #g gga agg cgc atc cgg          1872                                                                           Asn Leu Gln Asn Ile Pro Val Arg Asp Ser Le - #u Gly Arg Arg Ile Arg            #   620                                                                        - cag gcc ttc gtg gct gag ggc ccc gac tac gt - #g cta cta agc gcc gac          1920                                                                           Gln Ala Phe Val Ala Glu Gly Pro Asp Tyr Va - #l Leu Leu Ser Ala Asp            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - tac tcc cag ata gag ctt cgg gtc ttg gcc ca - #c ctt tcc gaa gat ccg          1968                                                                           Tyr Ser Gln Ile Glu Leu Arg Val Leu Ala Hi - #s Leu Ser Glu Asp Pro            #               655                                                            - ggg ctg tgt gag gcc ttt gtt aaa gga gaa ga - #c att cac gcc cgc acg          2016                                                                           Gly Leu Cys Glu Ala Phe Val Lys Gly Glu As - #p Ile His Ala Arg Thr            #           670                                                                - gcg gcc gag atc ttc ggc gtt tct cct cag ga - #a gtg acg ccg gag atg          2064                                                                           Ala Ala Glu Ile Phe Gly Val Ser Pro Gln Gl - #u Val Thr Pro Glu Met            #       685                                                                    - cgg gcc aag gcc aag gtg gta aac ttc ggg at - #c gtt tac ggc atg agc          2112                                                                           Arg Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Val Asn Phe Gly Il - #e Val Tyr Gly Met Ser            #   700                                                                        - gat tac ggc ctt tcc cag gag ctc aag atc ga - #g ccc ggc gag gcg cac          2160                                                                           Asp Tyr Gly Leu Ser Gln Glu Leu Lys Ile Gl - #u Pro Gly Glu Ala His            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - gag tat ata gaa cgg tac ttc cgg cgc tat cc - #g cgc gtg aag cag ttc          2208                                                                           Glu Tyr Ile Glu Arg Tyr Phe Arg Arg Tyr Pr - #o Arg Val Lys Gln Phe            #               735                                                            - atc gag cgg gtg atc gcc cag gcc cga gag aa - #g ggc tac gtg acc act          2256                                                                           Ile Glu Arg Val Ile Ala Gln Ala Arg Glu Ly - #s Gly Tyr Val Thr Thr            #           750                                                                - att ctc aac cgc cgc cgc tac atc cct gaa at - #a ctg agc agc aac cgc          2304                                                                           Ile Leu Asn Arg Arg Arg Tyr Ile Pro Glu Il - #e Leu Ser Ser Asn Arg            #       765                                                                    - aac cag cgt cag ctg ggg gag cgc ctg gcc at - #c aac acc acc att caa          2352                                                                           Asn Gln Arg Gln Leu Gly Glu Arg Leu Ala Il - #e Asn Thr Thr Ile Gln            #   780                                                                        - gga agt gcg gcc gat ctt ata aaa aag gcc at - #g gtg gac atc cac cgg          2400                                                                           Gly Ser Ala Ala Asp Leu Ile Lys Lys Ala Me - #t Val Asp Ile His Arg            785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - caa ctg aaa ggg caa gga ttt aaa tgc cgg at - #g atc ctc cag gtg cac          2448                                                                           Gln Leu Lys Gly Gln Gly Phe Lys Cys Arg Me - #t Ile Leu Gln Val His            #               815                                                            - gac gaa ctc ctc ttc gag gtg cct aaa gaa ga - #a ctg gaa aag gtg gca          2496                                                                           Asp Glu Leu Leu Phe Glu Val Pro Lys Glu Gl - #u Leu Glu Lys Val Ala            #           830                                                                - cct ata ata aaa agc acc atg gag caa gcc tt - #a cct ttt aag gtt ccc          2544                                                                           Pro Ile Ile Lys Ser Thr Met Glu Gln Ala Le - #u Pro Phe Lys Val Pro            #       845                                                                    - ata aag gcc aac ctc aag gta ggg cct aac tg - #g caa gac atg gaa gag          2592                                                                           Ile Lys Ala Asn Leu Lys Val Gly Pro Asn Tr - #p Gln Asp Met Glu Glu            #   860                                                                        #  2607            ga                                                          Tyr Glu Val Glu                                                                865                                                                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 2                                                            <211> LENGTH: 868                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Ammonifex degensii                                             - <400> SEQUENCE: 2                                                            - Val Lys Gly Lys Thr Leu Leu Leu Leu Asp Gl - #y Ser Ser Ile Ala Tyr          #                 15                                                           - Arg Ala Phe Phe Ala Leu Pro Ser Leu Arg Th - #r Arg Thr Gly Leu Pro          #             30                                                               - Thr Gly Ala Val Tyr Gly Phe Thr Ser Met Le - #u Phe Lys Val Leu Glu          #         45                                                                   - Glu Arg Arg Pro Thr Ala Ile Val Ala Ala Ph - #e Asp Lys Ser Lys Thr          #     60                                                                       - Thr Phe Arg His Ala Leu Ala Glu Thr Tyr Ly - #s Ala His Arg Pro Ala          # 80                                                                           - Thr Pro Asp Glu Leu Arg Gln Gln Phe Asn Le - #u Ile Lys Glu Val Leu          #                 95                                                           - Thr Ala Leu Asn Val Pro Val Val Glu Lys Gl - #u Gly Phe Glu Ala Asp          #           110                                                                - Asp Leu Ile Gly Thr Leu Val Asp Arg Ala Gl - #u Lys Glu Gly Trp Gln          #       125                                                                    - Cys Leu Ile Val Thr Gly Asp Leu Asp Ala Le - #u Gln Leu Val Ser Pro          #   140                                                                        - Leu Thr Thr Val Val Leu Met Arg Lys Gly Il - #e Ser Glu Ile Ala Val          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Phe Asn Glu Ala Glu Val Lys Arg Arg Phe Gl - #y Val Thr Pro Arg Gln          #               175                                                            - Leu Pro Asp Phe Lys Ala Leu Ala Gly Asp Al - #a Ser Asp Asn Ile Pro          #           190                                                                - Gly Leu Pro Gly Ile Gly Pro Lys Thr Ala Se - #r Arg Leu Leu Gln Ser          #       205                                                                    - His Gln Ser Leu Glu Lys Leu Leu Glu Ser Ly - #s Glu Phe Phe Pro Ala          #   220                                                                        - Lys Leu Arg Glu Thr Leu Glu Arg His Lys Gl - #u Glu Ala Val Leu Ala          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Lys Lys Leu Ala Leu Ile Arg Arg Asp Val Pr - #o Leu Glu Glu Glu Ile          #               255                                                            - Ile Arg Pro Trp Pro Gly Pro Asn Ile Leu Al - #a Thr Leu Glu Val Phe          #           270                                                                - Ser Arg Leu Glu Phe Arg Thr Leu Ala Lys Ar - #g Phe Leu Glu Leu Phe          #       285                                                                    - Pro Glu Ala Arg Leu Leu Ser Ala Ser Gly Le - #u Thr Pro Ser Ala Val          #   300                                                                        - Arg Val Lys Val Glu Arg Pro Glu Glu Leu Gl - #u Arg Leu Gly Glu Glu          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Leu Gly Arg Gln Glu Phe Ala Ala Leu Ala Ty - #r Pro Pro Val Leu Arg          #               335                                                            - Arg Lys Ala Thr Ser Ser Phe Leu Ala Leu Cy - #s Leu Gly Gly Glu Lys          #           350                                                                - Val Phe Leu Leu Glu Gly Pro Glu Val Leu Ly - #s Ser Phe Phe Arg Leu          #       365                                                                    - Leu Glu Glu Lys Gly Gly Leu Val Ser Thr Ty - #r Asp Ala Lys Ser Cys          #   380                                                                        - Leu His Ala Leu Glu Pro Tyr Gly Phe Lys Pr - #o Glu Met Ile Gly Phe          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Asp Val Leu Leu Ala Ala Tyr Leu Val Asn Pr - #o Ala Ala Asn Asn Glu          #               415                                                            - Leu Gly Ala Ile Ala Phe Glu His Ala Gly Ph - #e Met Leu Ser Pro Gly          #           430                                                                - Ala Glu Leu Pro Glu Lys Ala Gln Ala Ile Ty - #r Gln Leu Thr Pro Ile          #       445                                                                    - Leu Lys Ser Lys Ile Lys Leu Gln Glu Gln Gl - #u Tyr Leu Tyr Tyr Ser          #   460                                                                        - Val Glu Leu Pro Leu Ala Ala Val Leu Ala As - #p Met Glu Lys Val Gly          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Val Lys Val Ser Glu Glu Arg Leu Arg Ser Le - #u Ser Lys Glu Leu Gly          #               495                                                            - Glu Gln Leu Ala Gln Leu Ser Glu Glu Ile Ty - #r Lys Leu Ala Gly Glu          #           510                                                                - Arg Phe Asn Leu Asn Ser Pro Arg Gln Leu Gl - #y Tyr Ile Leu Phe Glu          #       525                                                                    - Lys Leu Gly Leu Lys Pro Val Lys Lys Thr Ly - #s Thr Gly Tyr Ser Thr          #   540                                                                        - Asp Ala Ser Val Leu Glu Lys Leu Ala Glu Hi - #s Glu Ile Val Ala Lys          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Val Leu Val Tyr Arg Gln Leu Ala Lys Leu Ly - #s Ser Thr Tyr Thr Asp          #               575                                                            - Ala Leu Pro Glu Leu Ile Asp Pro Ala Thr Gl - #y Arg Leu His Thr Thr          #           590                                                                - Phe Leu Gln Ala Gly Thr Ala Thr Gly Arg Le - #u Ala Ser Ala Glu Pro          #       605                                                                    - Asn Leu Gln Asn Ile Pro Val Arg Asp Ser Le - #u Gly Arg Arg Ile Arg          #   620                                                                        - Gln Ala Phe Val Ala Glu Gly Pro Asp Tyr Va - #l Leu Leu Ser Ala Asp          625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - Tyr Ser Gln Ile Glu Leu Arg Val Leu Ala Hi - #s Leu Ser Glu Asp Pro          #               655                                                            - Gly Leu Cys Glu Ala Phe Val Lys Gly Glu As - #p Ile His Ala Arg Thr          #           670                                                                - Ala Ala Glu Ile Phe Gly Val Ser Pro Gln Gl - #u Val Thr Pro Glu Met          #       685                                                                    - Arg Ala Lys Ala Lys Val Val Asn Phe Gly Il - #e Val Tyr Gly Met Ser          #   700                                                                        - Asp Tyr Gly Leu Ser Gln Glu Leu Lys Ile Gl - #u Pro Gly Glu Ala His          705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - Glu Tyr Ile Glu Arg Tyr Phe Arg Arg Tyr Pr - #o Arg Val Lys Gln Phe          #               735                                                            - Ile Glu Arg Val Ile Ala Gln Ala Arg Glu Ly - #s Gly Tyr Val Thr Thr          #           750                                                                - Ile Leu Asn Arg Arg Arg Tyr Ile Pro Glu Il - #e Leu Ser Ser Asn Arg          #       765                                                                    - Asn Gln Arg Gln Leu Gly Glu Arg Leu Ala Il - #e Asn Thr Thr Ile Gln          #   780                                                                        - Gly Ser Ala Ala Asp Leu Ile Lys Lys Ala Me - #t Val Asp Ile His Arg          785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - Gln Leu Lys Gly Gln Gly Phe Lys Cys Arg Me - #t Ile Leu Gln Val His          #               815                                                            - Asp Glu Leu Leu Phe Glu Val Pro Lys Glu Gl - #u Leu Glu Lys Val Ala          #           830                                                                - Pro Ile Ile Lys Ser Thr Met Glu Gln Ala Le - #u Pro Phe Lys Val Pro          #       845                                                                    - Ile Lys Ala Asn Leu Lys Val Gly Pro Asn Tr - #p Gln Asp Met Glu Glu          #   860                                                                        - Tyr Glu Val Glu                                                              865                                                                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 3                                                            <211> LENGTH: 2412                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Pyrolobus fumarius                                             <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(2410)                                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 3                                                            - atg act gaa gtt gta ttc acg gtt tta gac tc - #t agc tac gag gtt gtt            48                                                                           Met Thr Glu Val Val Phe Thr Val Leu Asp Se - #r Ser Tyr Glu Val Val            #                 15                                                           - ggt aaa gag cct cag gta atc ata tgg ggt at - #t gct gag aac ggc gag            96                                                                           Gly Lys Glu Pro Gln Val Ile Ile Trp Gly Il - #e Ala Glu Asn Gly Glu            #             30                                                               - agg gta gtc ctc att gac agg tct ttt cgc cc - #a tac ttc tat gcg ctg           144                                                                           Arg Val Val Leu Ile Asp Arg Ser Phe Arg Pr - #o Tyr Phe Tyr Ala Leu            #         45                                                                   - ctt gca ccg ggc gcc gat cct aag cag gta gc - #a caa cgt att cgt gca           192                                                                           Leu Ala Pro Gly Ala Asp Pro Lys Gln Val Al - #a Gln Arg Ile Arg Ala            #     60                                                                       - ttg agt agg cca aag agc ccg att ata ggt gt - #a gag gat gac aag agg           240                                                                           Leu Ser Arg Pro Lys Ser Pro Ile Ile Gly Va - #l Glu Asp Asp Lys Arg            # 80                                                                           - aag tac ttc ggg agg cct cgt agg gtc tta cg - #t att cgc acc gtg cta           288                                                                           Lys Tyr Phe Gly Arg Pro Arg Arg Val Leu Ar - #g Ile Arg Thr Val Leu            #                 95                                                           - ccc gag gct gtt agg gag tat cgc gaa ctc gt - #a aag aac gtt gat ggt           336                                                                           Pro Glu Ala Val Arg Glu Tyr Arg Glu Leu Va - #l Lys Asn Val Asp Gly            #           110                                                                - gtt gag gat gtt cta gag gcg gat ata cgc tt - #c gct atg cgc tat ctc           384                                                                           Val Glu Asp Val Leu Glu Ala Asp Ile Arg Ph - #e Ala Met Arg Tyr Leu            #       125                                                                    - ata gat cac gat cta ttt cct ttc acc tgg ta - #c cgt gta gag gct gag           432                                                                           Ile Asp His Asp Leu Phe Pro Phe Thr Trp Ty - #r Arg Val Glu Ala Glu            #   140                                                                        - ccc ctc gag aac aag atg ggc ttc cgt gtc ga - #c aag gta tac ctg gtt           480                                                                           Pro Leu Glu Asn Lys Met Gly Phe Arg Val As - #p Lys Val Tyr Leu Val            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - aag agc agg ccg gag cca ctt tat ggt gag gc - #t ctc gca cca acc aag           528                                                                           Lys Ser Arg Pro Glu Pro Leu Tyr Gly Glu Al - #a Leu Ala Pro Thr Lys            #               175                                                            - ctt ccc gat ctt agg ata ctc gcg ttc gat at - #t gaa gtt tat agc aag           576                                                                           Leu Pro Asp Leu Arg Ile Leu Ala Phe Asp Il - #e Glu Val Tyr Ser Lys            #           190                                                                - caa ggg tcg ccg cgt cca gag cgc gat cct gt - #a ata gtg ata gct gtg           624                                                                           Gln Gly Ser Pro Arg Pro Glu Arg Asp Pro Va - #l Ile Val Ile Ala Val            #       205                                                                    - aag act gac gat ggc gat gag gtg cta ttc at - #t gca gag ggc aaa gac           672                                                                           Lys Thr Asp Asp Gly Asp Glu Val Leu Phe Il - #e Ala Glu Gly Lys Asp            #   220                                                                        - gat cga aaa ccg ata cgc gag ttt gta gag ta - #c gtg aag agg tat gac           720                                                                           Asp Arg Lys Pro Ile Arg Glu Phe Val Glu Ty - #r Val Lys Arg Tyr Asp            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - ccc gac ata ata gtc ggt tat aac aac aat ca - #t ttc gat tgg cct tat           768                                                                           Pro Asp Ile Ile Val Gly Tyr Asn Asn Asn Hi - #s Phe Asp Trp Pro Tyr            #               255                                                            - ctt ttg agg cgc gcc cgc atc cta ggc ata aa - #g ctt gat gtg act aga           816                                                                           Leu Leu Arg Arg Ala Arg Ile Leu Gly Ile Ly - #s Leu Asp Val Thr Arg            #           270                                                                - aga gtt ggc gcc gag ccc acc act agc gta ca - #t ggg cac gtc tct gtc           864                                                                           Arg Val Gly Ala Glu Pro Thr Thr Ser Val Hi - #s Gly His Val Ser Val            #       285                                                                    - cct ggc agg ctt aac gta gat ctg tac gac ta - #t gcc gaa gag atg cca           912                                                                           Pro Gly Arg Leu Asn Val Asp Leu Tyr Asp Ty - #r Ala Glu Glu Met Pro            #   300                                                                        - gag atc aag ata aag agt ctc gag gag gtc gc - #a gag tat cta ggc gtg           960                                                                           Glu Ile Lys Ile Lys Ser Leu Glu Glu Val Al - #a Glu Tyr Leu Gly Val            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - atg aag aag agt gaa cgc gtt atc atc aat tg - #g tgg gag att cca gac          1008                                                                           Met Lys Lys Ser Glu Arg Val Ile Ile Asn Tr - #p Trp Glu Ile Pro Asp            #               335                                                            - tat tgg gac gac ccg aag aag aga cca cta tt - #a ctg caa tac gcg cgc          1056                                                                           Tyr Trp Asp Asp Pro Lys Lys Arg Pro Leu Le - #u Leu Gln Tyr Ala Arg            #           350                                                                - gac gat gtc cgc gct act tac ggc tta gcc ga - #g aag ata ttg ccg ttt          1104                                                                           Asp Asp Val Arg Ala Thr Tyr Gly Leu Ala Gl - #u Lys Ile Leu Pro Phe            #       365                                                                    - gct atc cag ttg tcg tac gta aca ggt ctc cc - #a cta gac cag gta ggt          1152                                                                           Ala Ile Gln Leu Ser Tyr Val Thr Gly Leu Pr - #o Leu Asp Gln Val Gly            #   380                                                                        - gcg atg agt gtt ggc ttt cga ctt gaa tgg ta - #c ctg ata cgc gcg gcg          1200                                                                           Ala Met Ser Val Gly Phe Arg Leu Glu Trp Ty - #r Leu Ile Arg Ala Ala            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - ttt aag atg aaa gag ctt gtg ccg aac cgc gt - #t gag cgc cca gaa gag          1248                                                                           Phe Lys Met Lys Glu Leu Val Pro Asn Arg Va - #l Glu Arg Pro Glu Glu            #               415                                                            - act tac cgt ggc gct ata gtt ctt gag ccg tt - #g aga ggc gtg cac gag          1296                                                                           Thr Tyr Arg Gly Ala Ile Val Leu Glu Pro Le - #u Arg Gly Val His Glu            #           430                                                                - aat ata gcc gta ctc gac ttt agc tcg atg ta - #c cca aac atc atg ata          1344                                                                           Asn Ile Ala Val Leu Asp Phe Ser Ser Met Ty - #r Pro Asn Ile Met Ile            #       445                                                                    - aag tac aat gtt ggt cct gac acg ctt gtg ag - #g cct ggt gaa aag tgt          1392                                                                           Lys Tyr Asn Val Gly Pro Asp Thr Leu Val Ar - #g Pro Gly Glu Lys Cys            #   460                                                                        - ggc gag tgt ggt tgc tgg gag gcc ccg gag gt - #c aag cac agg ttc cgt          1440                                                                           Gly Glu Cys Gly Cys Trp Glu Ala Pro Glu Va - #l Lys His Arg Phe Arg            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - agg tgt ccg ccc ggc ttc ttc aag aca gtt ct - #t gag agg ctg tta gag          1488                                                                           Arg Cys Pro Pro Gly Phe Phe Lys Thr Val Le - #u Glu Arg Leu Leu Glu            #               495                                                            - ctt cgt aag cgt gtg cgt gct gaa atg aag aa - #g tat cct ccg gat agc          1536                                                                           Leu Arg Lys Arg Val Arg Ala Glu Met Lys Ly - #s Tyr Pro Pro Asp Ser            #           510                                                                - cca gaa tat cga ctg ttg gat gaa agg cag aa - #g gcg ttg aag gtt ctt          1584                                                                           Pro Glu Tyr Arg Leu Leu Asp Glu Arg Gln Ly - #s Ala Leu Lys Val Leu            #       525                                                                    - gca aac gct agt tac ggc tac atg ggt tgg ag - #c ggc gct agg tgg tat          1632                                                                           Ala Asn Ala Ser Tyr Gly Tyr Met Gly Trp Se - #r Gly Ala Arg Trp Tyr            #   540                                                                        - tgc agg gag tgc gca aag gct gtc acg gct tg - #g ggt agg cac ctc ata          1680                                                                           Cys Arg Glu Cys Ala Lys Ala Val Thr Ala Tr - #p Gly Arg His Leu Ile            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - cgc acc gcc atc aac ata gct cgt aaa cta gg - #c ctc aag gtg atc tac          1728                                                                           Arg Thr Ala Ile Asn Ile Ala Arg Lys Leu Gl - #y Leu Lys Val Ile Tyr            #               575                                                            - ggt gac aca gat tcg ctc ttc gtg acc tat ga - #t ccg gag aag gtg gaa          1776                                                                           Gly Asp Thr Asp Ser Leu Phe Val Thr Tyr As - #p Pro Glu Lys Val Glu            #           590                                                                - aat ttc atc aaa att ata aag gag gag ctg gg - #g ttc gaa atc aag cta          1824                                                                           Asn Phe Ile Lys Ile Ile Lys Glu Glu Leu Gl - #y Phe Glu Ile Lys Leu            #       605                                                                    - gag aag gtg tac aaa cgc tta ttc ttt aca ga - #g gct aag aag agg tac          1872                                                                           Glu Lys Val Tyr Lys Arg Leu Phe Phe Thr Gl - #u Ala Lys Lys Arg Tyr            #   620                                                                        - gct ggc ctt ctc gag gac gga cgt ata gat at - #t gtc ggt ttc gag gct          1920                                                                           Ala Gly Leu Leu Glu Asp Gly Arg Ile Asp Il - #e Val Gly Phe Glu Ala            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - gta cgt ggc gat tgg tgt gaa ctc gcc aag ga - #g gtt cag act aag gtt          1968                                                                           Val Arg Gly Asp Trp Cys Glu Leu Ala Lys Gl - #u Val Gln Thr Lys Val            #               655                                                            - gtc gaa ata gta ttg aag acg agt gag gtg aa - #c aag gct gta gag tac          2016                                                                           Val Glu Ile Val Leu Lys Thr Ser Glu Val As - #n Lys Ala Val Glu Tyr            #           670                                                                - gtc agg aag att gtg aaa gag ttg gag gag gg - #c aag gtt ccc ata gag          2064                                                                           Val Arg Lys Ile Val Lys Glu Leu Glu Glu Gl - #y Lys Val Pro Ile Glu            #       685                                                                    - aag ctt gta atc tgg aag acc ctt agt aag cg - #t ctt gag gag tac aca          2112                                                                           Lys Leu Val Ile Trp Lys Thr Leu Ser Lys Ar - #g Leu Glu Glu Tyr Thr            #   700                                                                        - acg gag gca cca cac gtc gtt gca gcg aag ag - #g atg ctg tca gca ggc          2160                                                                           Thr Glu Ala Pro His Val Val Ala Ala Lys Ar - #g Met Leu Ser Ala Gly            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - tac cgg gta agc cca ggc gac aag ata ggg ta - #t gta ata gtg aag ggt          2208                                                                           Tyr Arg Val Ser Pro Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Ty - #r Val Ile Val Lys Gly            #               735                                                            - ggt ggc cgt atc agt caa aga gca tgg cca ta - #c ttc atg gtc aag gat          2256                                                                           Gly Gly Arg Ile Ser Gln Arg Ala Trp Pro Ty - #r Phe Met Val Lys Asp            #           750                                                                - cct agc cag ata gac gtg acc tac tat gtt ga - #c cac caa atc atc ccg          2304                                                                           Pro Ser Gln Ile Asp Val Thr Tyr Tyr Val As - #p His Gln Ile Ile Pro            #       765                                                                    - gct gca ttg aga ata ctg ggc tac ttt ggc at - #c acc gag aag aag ctg          2352                                                                           Ala Ala Leu Arg Ile Leu Gly Tyr Phe Gly Il - #e Thr Glu Lys Lys Leu            #   780                                                                        - aaa gca agt gca act ggg cag aag act ctc tt - #c gac ttt cta gcc aag          2400                                                                           Lys Ala Ser Ala Thr Gly Gln Lys Thr Leu Ph - #e Asp Phe Leu Ala Lys            785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            #     2412                                                                     Lys Ser Lys                                                                    - <210> SEQ ID NO 4                                                            <211> LENGTH: 803                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Pyrolobus fumarius                                             - <400> SEQUENCE: 4                                                            - Met Thr Glu Val Val Phe Thr Val Leu Asp Se - #r Ser Tyr Glu Val Val          #                 15                                                           - Gly Lys Glu Pro Gln Val Ile Ile Trp Gly Il - #e Ala Glu Asn Gly Glu          #             30                                                               - Arg Val Val Leu Ile Asp Arg Ser Phe Arg Pr - #o Tyr Phe Tyr Ala Leu          #         45                                                                   - Leu Ala Pro Gly Ala Asp Pro Lys Gln Val Al - #a Gln Arg Ile Arg Ala          #     60                                                                       - Leu Ser Arg Pro Lys Ser Pro Ile Ile Gly Va - #l Glu Asp Asp Lys Arg          # 80                                                                           - Lys Tyr Phe Gly Arg Pro Arg Arg Val Leu Ar - #g Ile Arg Thr Val Leu          #                 95                                                           - Pro Glu Ala Val Arg Glu Tyr Arg Glu Leu Va - #l Lys Asn Val Asp Gly          #           110                                                                - Val Glu Asp Val Leu Glu Ala Asp Ile Arg Ph - #e Ala Met Arg Tyr Leu          #       125                                                                    - Ile Asp His Asp Leu Phe Pro Phe Thr Trp Ty - #r Arg Val Glu Ala Glu          #   140                                                                        - Pro Leu Glu Asn Lys Met Gly Phe Arg Val As - #p Lys Val Tyr Leu Val          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Lys Ser Arg Pro Glu Pro Leu Tyr Gly Glu Al - #a Leu Ala Pro Thr Lys          #               175                                                            - Leu Pro Asp Leu Arg Ile Leu Ala Phe Asp Il - #e Glu Val Tyr Ser Lys          #           190                                                                - Gln Gly Ser Pro Arg Pro Glu Arg Asp Pro Va - #l Ile Val Ile Ala Val          #       205                                                                    - Lys Thr Asp Asp Gly Asp Glu Val Leu Phe Il - #e Ala Glu Gly Lys Asp          #   220                                                                        - Asp Arg Lys Pro Ile Arg Glu Phe Val Glu Ty - #r Val Lys Arg Tyr Asp          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Pro Asp Ile Ile Val Gly Tyr Asn Asn Asn Hi - #s Phe Asp Trp Pro Tyr          #               255                                                            - Leu Leu Arg Arg Ala Arg Ile Leu Gly Ile Ly - #s Leu Asp Val Thr Arg          #           270                                                                - Arg Val Gly Ala Glu Pro Thr Thr Ser Val Hi - #s Gly His Val Ser Val          #       285                                                                    - Pro Gly Arg Leu Asn Val Asp Leu Tyr Asp Ty - #r Ala Glu Glu Met Pro          #   300                                                                        - Glu Ile Lys Ile Lys Ser Leu Glu Glu Val Al - #a Glu Tyr Leu Gly Val          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Met Lys Lys Ser Glu Arg Val Ile Ile Asn Tr - #p Trp Glu Ile Pro Asp          #               335                                                            - Tyr Trp Asp Asp Pro Lys Lys Arg Pro Leu Le - #u Leu Gln Tyr Ala Arg          #           350                                                                - Asp Asp Val Arg Ala Thr Tyr Gly Leu Ala Gl - #u Lys Ile Leu Pro Phe          #       365                                                                    - Ala Ile Gln Leu Ser Tyr Val Thr Gly Leu Pr - #o Leu Asp Gln Val Gly          #   380                                                                        - Ala Met Ser Val Gly Phe Arg Leu Glu Trp Ty - #r Leu Ile Arg Ala Ala          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Phe Lys Met Lys Glu Leu Val Pro Asn Arg Va - #l Glu Arg Pro Glu Glu          #               415                                                            - Thr Tyr Arg Gly Ala Ile Val Leu Glu Pro Le - #u Arg Gly Val His Glu          #           430                                                                - Asn Ile Ala Val Leu Asp Phe Ser Ser Met Ty - #r Pro Asn Ile Met Ile          #       445                                                                    - Lys Tyr Asn Val Gly Pro Asp Thr Leu Val Ar - #g Pro Gly Glu Lys Cys          #   460                                                                        - Gly Glu Cys Gly Cys Trp Glu Ala Pro Glu Va - #l Lys His Arg Phe Arg          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Arg Cys Pro Pro Gly Phe Phe Lys Thr Val Le - #u Glu Arg Leu Leu Glu          #               495                                                            - Leu Arg Lys Arg Val Arg Ala Glu Met Lys Ly - #s Tyr Pro Pro Asp Ser          #           510                                                                - Pro Glu Tyr Arg Leu Leu Asp Glu Arg Gln Ly - #s Ala Leu Lys Val Leu          #       525                                                                    - Ala Asn Ala Ser Tyr Gly Tyr Met Gly Trp Se - #r Gly Ala Arg Trp Tyr          #   540                                                                        - Cys Arg Glu Cys Ala Lys Ala Val Thr Ala Tr - #p Gly Arg His Leu Ile          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Arg Thr Ala Ile Asn Ile Ala Arg Lys Leu Gl - #y Leu Lys Val Ile Tyr          #               575                                                            - Gly Asp Thr Asp Ser Leu Phe Val Thr Tyr As - #p Pro Glu Lys Val Glu          #           590                                                                - Asn Phe Ile Lys Ile Ile Lys Glu Glu Leu Gl - #y Phe Glu Ile Lys Leu          #       605                                                                    - Glu Lys Val Tyr Lys Arg Leu Phe Phe Thr Gl - #u Ala Lys Lys Arg Tyr          #   620                                                                        - Ala Gly Leu Leu Glu Asp Gly Arg Ile Asp Il - #e Val Gly Phe Glu Ala          625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - Val Arg Gly Asp Trp Cys Glu Leu Ala Lys Gl - #u Val Gln Thr Lys Val          #               655                                                            - Val Glu Ile Val Leu Lys Thr Ser Glu Val As - #n Lys Ala Val Glu Tyr          #           670                                                                - Val Arg Lys Ile Val Lys Glu Leu Glu Glu Gl - #y Lys Val Pro Ile Glu          #       685                                                                    - Lys Leu Val Ile Trp Lys Thr Leu Ser Lys Ar - #g Leu Glu Glu Tyr Thr          #   700                                                                        - Thr Glu Ala Pro His Val Val Ala Ala Lys Ar - #g Met Leu Ser Ala Gly          705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - Tyr Arg Val Ser Pro Gly Asp Lys Ile Gly Ty - #r Val Ile Val Lys Gly          #               735                                                            - Gly Gly Arg Ile Ser Gln Arg Ala Trp Pro Ty - #r Phe Met Val Lys Asp          #           750                                                                - Pro Ser Gln Ile Asp Val Thr Tyr Tyr Val As - #p His Gln Ile Ile Pro          #       765                                                                    - Ala Ala Leu Arg Ile Leu Gly Tyr Phe Gly Il - #e Thr Glu Lys Lys Leu          #   780                                                                        - Lys Ala Ser Ala Thr Gly Gln Lys Thr Leu Ph - #e Asp Phe Leu Ala Lys          785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - Lys Ser Lys                                                                  - <210> SEQ ID NO 5                                                            <211> LENGTH: 2367                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Archaeoglobus lithotrophicus                                   <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(2364)                                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 5                                                            - atg ata aag gtc aag ggc tgg ctg ctc gat gc - #a gat tat atc acc gaa            48                                                                           Met Ile Lys Val Lys Gly Trp Leu Leu Asp Al - #a Asp Tyr Ile Thr Glu            #                 15                                                           - aac gat cga gcc gtt ata agg cta tgg tgt aa - #g gat gag gaa gga ata            96                                                                           Asn Asp Arg Ala Val Ile Arg Leu Trp Cys Ly - #s Asp Glu Glu Gly Ile            #             30                                                               - ttt atc gca tac gat cac tca ttc cag ccc ta - #c ttt tac gca ctc aaa           144                                                                           Phe Ile Ala Tyr Asp His Ser Phe Gln Pro Ty - #r Phe Tyr Ala Leu Lys            #         45                                                                   - gaa gag ggt atc act gcc gaa gat ata gtg aa - #a ata aag gtt caa acg           192                                                                           Glu Glu Gly Ile Thr Ala Glu Asp Ile Val Ly - #s Ile Lys Val Gln Thr            #     60                                                                       - aaa aaa gaa gta att acg ccg tta aaa gtt ga - #g gaa acc aca gcc aaa           240                                                                           Lys Lys Glu Val Ile Thr Pro Leu Lys Val Gl - #u Glu Thr Thr Ala Lys            # 80                                                                           - aat ctt ggt agg gag gtt gaa gtt ttc aag at - #a tat gca aga cac cct           288                                                                           Asn Leu Gly Arg Glu Val Glu Val Phe Lys Il - #e Tyr Ala Arg His Pro            #                 95                                                           - cag cac gtc ccc aaa ctt cgt gag gtt gtt tc - #g cag tat ctg gag att           336                                                                           Gln His Val Pro Lys Leu Arg Glu Val Val Se - #r Gln Tyr Leu Glu Ile            #           110                                                                - agg gag gca gac ata cct ttt gcc tat cga ta - #c ctc ata gat aaa aat           384                                                                           Arg Glu Ala Asp Ile Pro Phe Ala Tyr Arg Ty - #r Leu Ile Asp Lys Asn            #       125                                                                    - ctt gcg tgt atg gat gga gtt gta att gaa gg - #c gtt gaa aga cgt gag           432                                                                           Leu Ala Cys Met Asp Gly Val Val Ile Glu Gl - #y Val Glu Arg Arg Glu            #   140                                                                        - aag ggg ttg aga tgt tac gaa atc aag aga at - #a gaa aga gat tcc aga           480                                                                           Lys Gly Leu Arg Cys Tyr Glu Ile Lys Arg Il - #e Glu Arg Asp Ser Arg            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - cag gat ttt ccc gaa ctc aag gtt atg gcg tt - #t gat tgc gaa atg ctc           528                                                                           Gln Asp Phe Pro Glu Leu Lys Val Met Ala Ph - #e Asp Cys Glu Met Leu            #               175                                                            - tca gag gtt ggt atg ccc gat cca gag aaa ga - #t cct atc ata gtc ata           576                                                                           Ser Glu Val Gly Met Pro Asp Pro Glu Lys As - #p Pro Ile Ile Val Ile            #           190                                                                - tca att aaa tcg ggt gaa tac gag gaa atc ct - #c aac ggt gat aac gag           624                                                                           Ser Ile Lys Ser Gly Glu Tyr Glu Glu Ile Le - #u Asn Gly Asp Asn Glu            #       205                                                                    - aga gaa ttg ctt acc aga ttt gtc aag ata at - #t cgc gat att gat ccc           672                                                                           Arg Glu Leu Leu Thr Arg Phe Val Lys Ile Il - #e Arg Asp Ile Asp Pro            #   220                                                                        - gac att ata gtt gga tac aat cag gac agc tt - #t gac tgg ccc tat atc           720                                                                           Asp Ile Ile Val Gly Tyr Asn Gln Asp Ser Ph - #e Asp Trp Pro Tyr Ile            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - aag aag aga gct gag aaa ctg agg gtt aag ct - #t gac atc gga aga gat           768                                                                           Lys Lys Arg Ala Glu Lys Leu Arg Val Lys Le - #u Asp Ile Gly Arg Asp            #               255                                                            - aga agc gaa ctg gct atc agg gga gga aga cc - #a aag att gct ggc agg           816                                                                           Arg Ser Glu Leu Ala Ile Arg Gly Gly Arg Pr - #o Lys Ile Ala Gly Arg            #           270                                                                - ttg aac gtg gat ctc tat gat att gca atg ag - #g agt ctc gat gta aag           864                                                                           Leu Asn Val Asp Leu Tyr Asp Ile Ala Met Ar - #g Ser Leu Asp Val Lys            #       285                                                                    - gtg aag aag ctc gaa aac gtt gca gag ttt ct - #g ggt aag aaa ata gag           912                                                                           Val Lys Lys Leu Glu Asn Val Ala Glu Phe Le - #u Gly Lys Lys Ile Glu            #   300                                                                        - ctt gca gat att gaa gcg aag gat atc tac aa - #g cac tgg aca tcg ggc           960                                                                           Leu Ala Asp Ile Glu Ala Lys Asp Ile Tyr Ly - #s His Trp Thr Ser Gly            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - gac agg gaa agc gta atc aaa tac tcc cgg ca - #g gac atc ctg cac acg          1008                                                                           Asp Arg Glu Ser Val Ile Lys Tyr Ser Arg Gl - #n Asp Ile Leu His Thr            #               335                                                            - tac ttc ata gct gaa gaa ttg ctg cca atg ca - #t tac gaa ctt tcc aga          1056                                                                           Tyr Phe Ile Ala Glu Glu Leu Leu Pro Met Hi - #s Tyr Glu Leu Ser Arg            #           350                                                                - atg ata cgc ata cct ctc gat gat gtg aca ag - #g agc ggg aga ggt aag          1104                                                                           Met Ile Arg Ile Pro Leu Asp Asp Val Thr Ar - #g Ser Gly Arg Gly Lys            #       365                                                                    - cag gtt gag tgg ctg ctg tta agc gaa gca ca - #c aaa ctt ggc gaa ctt          1152                                                                           Gln Val Glu Trp Leu Leu Leu Ser Glu Ala Hi - #s Lys Leu Gly Glu Leu            #   380                                                                        - gca ccc aac ccc aga gag atg gcc gac agc ta - #t gaa gga gca ttc gtg          1200                                                                           Ala Pro Asn Pro Arg Glu Met Ala Asp Ser Ty - #r Glu Gly Ala Phe Val            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - ctc gag ccc gca aga gga ttg cat gag aac gt - #a atc tgc ctg gac ttt          1248                                                                           Leu Glu Pro Ala Arg Gly Leu His Glu Asn Va - #l Ile Cys Leu Asp Phe            #               415                                                            - gcg tcc atg tat ccc tca ata atg att tca ta - #c aac atc agc ccc gac          1296                                                                           Ala Ser Met Tyr Pro Ser Ile Met Ile Ser Ty - #r Asn Ile Ser Pro Asp            #           430                                                                - acg ctt gta ata ggc aaa tgc gac gat tgc aa - #t gta gcg ccg gag gtg          1344                                                                           Thr Leu Val Ile Gly Lys Cys Asp Asp Cys As - #n Val Ala Pro Glu Val            #       445                                                                    - ggg cac aaa ttc agg aaa cat cct gat ggt tt - #t ttc aaa aga ata ctc          1392                                                                           Gly His Lys Phe Arg Lys His Pro Asp Gly Ph - #e Phe Lys Arg Ile Leu            #   460                                                                        - aaa atg ctg att gag aaa aga aga gaa ata aa - #g aag gtt atg aaa aca          1440                                                                           Lys Met Leu Ile Glu Lys Arg Arg Glu Ile Ly - #s Lys Val Met Lys Thr            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - ctt gac tac aac tcg cca gaa tac aag ctg ct - #c gat ata aag cag gca          1488                                                                           Leu Asp Tyr Asn Ser Pro Glu Tyr Lys Leu Le - #u Asp Ile Lys Gln Ala            #               495                                                            - acg ctg aaa gtt ctt aca aac tcg ttt tac gg - #t tat act ggg tgg agt          1536                                                                           Thr Leu Lys Val Leu Thr Asn Ser Phe Tyr Gl - #y Tyr Thr Gly Trp Ser            #           510                                                                - ctt gcg aga tgg tac tgc aag gag tgc gct ga - #a gct aca acg gca tgg          1584                                                                           Leu Ala Arg Trp Tyr Cys Lys Glu Cys Ala Gl - #u Ala Thr Thr Ala Trp            #       525                                                                    - ggc aga cac ttt atc aaa aca tct gca aga at - #t gcg aaa gag ctt gga          1632                                                                           Gly Arg His Phe Ile Lys Thr Ser Ala Arg Il - #e Ala Lys Glu Leu Gly            #   540                                                                        - ttt gaa gtg cta tat ggg gat aca gat agc at - #c ttt gtt aaa aaa gat          1680                                                                           Phe Glu Val Leu Tyr Gly Asp Thr Asp Ser Il - #e Phe Val Lys Lys Asp            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - gga ttg agc ctg gaa gag ctc aaa aaa gaa gt - #t aaa aag ctc ata ggt          1728                                                                           Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Glu Leu Lys Lys Glu Va - #l Lys Lys Leu Ile Gly            #               575                                                            - aaa ctt tcg gaa gag atg cca ata caa ata ga - #g ata gat gaa tac tac          1776                                                                           Lys Leu Ser Glu Glu Met Pro Ile Gln Ile Gl - #u Ile Asp Glu Tyr Tyr            #           590                                                                - gag aca ata ttc ttc gtt gaa aag aaa agg ta - #t gct gga ttg aca cag          1824                                                                           Glu Thr Ile Phe Phe Val Glu Lys Lys Arg Ty - #r Ala Gly Leu Thr Gln            #       605                                                                    - gat gga aga ata att gta aag ggt ctt gaa gt - #c aga aga ggc gac tgg          1872                                                                           Asp Gly Arg Ile Ile Val Lys Gly Leu Glu Va - #l Arg Arg Gly Asp Trp            #   620                                                                        - tgc gag ctt gca aag aag ata cag aaa ggt gt - #a ata gaa atc att ctg          1920                                                                           Cys Glu Leu Ala Lys Lys Ile Gln Lys Gly Va - #l Ile Glu Ile Ile Leu            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - aag gaa aag aat cct gaa aaa gct gct gag ta - #t gtg aaa gga gtc ata          1968                                                                           Lys Glu Lys Asn Pro Glu Lys Ala Ala Glu Ty - #r Val Lys Gly Val Ile            #               655                                                            - gag gag ata aag gca ggc aaa att ccg ctt ga - #a gat tat atc atc tac          2016                                                                           Glu Glu Ile Lys Ala Gly Lys Ile Pro Leu Gl - #u Asp Tyr Ile Ile Tyr            #           670                                                                - aag gga ttg acg aga aaa cca tca aag tac ga - #g agt atg cag gct cac          2064                                                                           Lys Gly Leu Thr Arg Lys Pro Ser Lys Tyr Gl - #u Ser Met Gln Ala His            #       685                                                                    - gta aaa gct gcc atg aag gcg gca aag aga gg - #a ata gta tac aca atc          2112                                                                           Val Lys Ala Ala Met Lys Ala Ala Lys Arg Gl - #y Ile Val Tyr Thr Ile            #   700                                                                        - ggc tca aag gtt ggt ttt gtc gtt aca aaa gg - #t gtg ggg aac ata ggt          2160                                                                           Gly Ser Lys Val Gly Phe Val Val Thr Lys Gl - #y Val Gly Asn Ile Gly            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - gat agg gct ttt cca tct gat ctg ata gag ga - #c ttt gac ggt gaa gtg          2208                                                                           Asp Arg Ala Phe Pro Ser Asp Leu Ile Glu As - #p Phe Asp Gly Glu Val            #               735                                                            - atc aca gat ctt gac gga aac aag tac aag at - #c gac aag gaa tac tat          2256                                                                           Ile Thr Asp Leu Asp Gly Asn Lys Tyr Lys Il - #e Asp Lys Glu Tyr Tyr            #           750                                                                - ata gac cat cag gta ctg cca tcg gtt ctt cg - #a att ctc gag agg ttc          2304                                                                           Ile Asp His Gln Val Leu Pro Ser Val Leu Ar - #g Ile Leu Glu Arg Phe            #       765                                                                    - gga tac acc gag gca cag cta aaa ggt gct gc - #g gag cag caa acg cta          2352                                                                           Gly Tyr Thr Glu Ala Gln Leu Lys Gly Ala Al - #a Glu Gln Gln Thr Leu            #   780                                                                        #  2367            aa                                                          Asp Ala Phe Trp                                                                785                                                                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 6                                                            <211> LENGTH: 788                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Archaeoglobus lithotrophicus                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 6                                                            - Met Ile Lys Val Lys Gly Trp Leu Leu Asp Al - #a Asp Tyr Ile Thr Glu          #                 15                                                           - Asn Asp Arg Ala Val Ile Arg Leu Trp Cys Ly - #s Asp Glu Glu Gly Ile          #             30                                                               - Phe Ile Ala Tyr Asp His Ser Phe Gln Pro Ty - #r Phe Tyr Ala Leu Lys          #         45                                                                   - Glu Glu Gly Ile Thr Ala Glu Asp Ile Val Ly - #s Ile Lys Val Gln Thr          #     60                                                                       - Lys Lys Glu Val Ile Thr Pro Leu Lys Val Gl - #u Glu Thr Thr Ala Lys          # 80                                                                           - Asn Leu Gly Arg Glu Val Glu Val Phe Lys Il - #e Tyr Ala Arg His Pro          #                 95                                                           - Gln His Val Pro Lys Leu Arg Glu Val Val Se - #r Gln Tyr Leu Glu Ile          #           110                                                                - Arg Glu Ala Asp Ile Pro Phe Ala Tyr Arg Ty - #r Leu Ile Asp Lys Asn          #       125                                                                    - Leu Ala Cys Met Asp Gly Val Val Ile Glu Gl - #y Val Glu Arg Arg Glu          #   140                                                                        - Lys Gly Leu Arg Cys Tyr Glu Ile Lys Arg Il - #e Glu Arg Asp Ser Arg          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Gln Asp Phe Pro Glu Leu Lys Val Met Ala Ph - #e Asp Cys Glu Met Leu          #               175                                                            - Ser Glu Val Gly Met Pro Asp Pro Glu Lys As - #p Pro Ile Ile Val Ile          #           190                                                                - Ser Ile Lys Ser Gly Glu Tyr Glu Glu Ile Le - #u Asn Gly Asp Asn Glu          #       205                                                                    - Arg Glu Leu Leu Thr Arg Phe Val Lys Ile Il - #e Arg Asp Ile Asp Pro          #   220                                                                        - Asp Ile Ile Val Gly Tyr Asn Gln Asp Ser Ph - #e Asp Trp Pro Tyr Ile          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Lys Lys Arg Ala Glu Lys Leu Arg Val Lys Le - #u Asp Ile Gly Arg Asp          #               255                                                            - Arg Ser Glu Leu Ala Ile Arg Gly Gly Arg Pr - #o Lys Ile Ala Gly Arg          #           270                                                                - Leu Asn Val Asp Leu Tyr Asp Ile Ala Met Ar - #g Ser Leu Asp Val Lys          #       285                                                                    - Val Lys Lys Leu Glu Asn Val Ala Glu Phe Le - #u Gly Lys Lys Ile Glu          #   300                                                                        - Leu Ala Asp Ile Glu Ala Lys Asp Ile Tyr Ly - #s His Trp Thr Ser Gly          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Asp Arg Glu Ser Val Ile Lys Tyr Ser Arg Gl - #n Asp Ile Leu His Thr          #               335                                                            - Tyr Phe Ile Ala Glu Glu Leu Leu Pro Met Hi - #s Tyr Glu Leu Ser Arg          #           350                                                                - Met Ile Arg Ile Pro Leu Asp Asp Val Thr Ar - #g Ser Gly Arg Gly Lys          #       365                                                                    - Gln Val Glu Trp Leu Leu Leu Ser Glu Ala Hi - #s Lys Leu Gly Glu Leu          #   380                                                                        - Ala Pro Asn Pro Arg Glu Met Ala Asp Ser Ty - #r Glu Gly Ala Phe Val          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Leu Glu Pro Ala Arg Gly Leu His Glu Asn Va - #l Ile Cys Leu Asp Phe          #               415                                                            - Ala Ser Met Tyr Pro Ser Ile Met Ile Ser Ty - #r Asn Ile Ser Pro Asp          #           430                                                                - Thr Leu Val Ile Gly Lys Cys Asp Asp Cys As - #n Val Ala Pro Glu Val          #       445                                                                    - Gly His Lys Phe Arg Lys His Pro Asp Gly Ph - #e Phe Lys Arg Ile Leu          #   460                                                                        - Lys Met Leu Ile Glu Lys Arg Arg Glu Ile Ly - #s Lys Val Met Lys Thr          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Leu Asp Tyr Asn Ser Pro Glu Tyr Lys Leu Le - #u Asp Ile Lys Gln Ala          #               495                                                            - Thr Leu Lys Val Leu Thr Asn Ser Phe Tyr Gl - #y Tyr Thr Gly Trp Ser          #           510                                                                - Leu Ala Arg Trp Tyr Cys Lys Glu Cys Ala Gl - #u Ala Thr Thr Ala Trp          #       525                                                                    - Gly Arg His Phe Ile Lys Thr Ser Ala Arg Il - #e Ala Lys Glu Leu Gly          #   540                                                                        - Phe Glu Val Leu Tyr Gly Asp Thr Asp Ser Il - #e Phe Val Lys Lys Asp          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Gly Leu Ser Leu Glu Glu Leu Lys Lys Glu Va - #l Lys Lys Leu Ile Gly          #               575                                                            - Lys Leu Ser Glu Glu Met Pro Ile Gln Ile Gl - #u Ile Asp Glu Tyr Tyr          #           590                                                                - Glu Thr Ile Phe Phe Val Glu Lys Lys Arg Ty - #r Ala Gly Leu Thr Gln          #       605                                                                    - Asp Gly Arg Ile Ile Val Lys Gly Leu Glu Va - #l Arg Arg Gly Asp Trp          #   620                                                                        - Cys Glu Leu Ala Lys Lys Ile Gln Lys Gly Va - #l Ile Glu Ile Ile Leu          625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - Lys Glu Lys Asn Pro Glu Lys Ala Ala Glu Ty - #r Val Lys Gly Val Ile          #               655                                                            - Glu Glu Ile Lys Ala Gly Lys Ile Pro Leu Gl - #u Asp Tyr Ile Ile Tyr          #           670                                                                - Lys Gly Leu Thr Arg Lys Pro Ser Lys Tyr Gl - #u Ser Met Gln Ala His          #       685                                                                    - Val Lys Ala Ala Met Lys Ala Ala Lys Arg Gl - #y Ile Val Tyr Thr Ile          #   700                                                                        - Gly Ser Lys Val Gly Phe Val Val Thr Lys Gl - #y Val Gly Asn Ile Gly          705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - Asp Arg Ala Phe Pro Ser Asp Leu Ile Glu As - #p Phe Asp Gly Glu Val          #               735                                                            - Ile Thr Asp Leu Asp Gly Asn Lys Tyr Lys Il - #e Asp Lys Glu Tyr Tyr          #           750                                                                - Ile Asp His Gln Val Leu Pro Ser Val Leu Ar - #g Ile Leu Glu Arg Phe          #       765                                                                    - Gly Tyr Thr Glu Ala Gln Leu Lys Gly Ala Al - #a Glu Gln Gln Thr Leu          #   780                                                                        - Asp Ala Phe Trp                                                              785                                                                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 7                                                            <211> LENGTH: 2634                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Metallosphaera prunae                                          <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(2631)                                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 7                                                            - atg agt ata atg gcc aga cag ctt acc ctt gc - #t gac ttc tct ggg atc            48                                                                           Met Ser Ile Met Ala Arg Gln Leu Thr Leu Al - #a Asp Phe Ser Gly Ile            #                 15                                                           - aag aga gag gaa cca gtt aaa cag gaa gag aa - #g acg cag gag gaa gag            96                                                                           Lys Arg Glu Glu Pro Val Lys Gln Glu Glu Ly - #s Thr Gln Glu Glu Glu            #             30                                                               - agg cct ctg gaa agg cca gcg agg cta aga aa - #g gac aca gtt aaa cag           144                                                                           Arg Pro Leu Glu Arg Pro Ala Arg Leu Arg Ly - #s Asp Thr Val Lys Gln            #         45                                                                   - gcg cag gag gag aga aag tac ttt ctt ctc tc - #c gta gac tat gat ggt           192                                                                           Ala Gln Glu Glu Arg Lys Tyr Phe Leu Leu Se - #r Val Asp Tyr Asp Gly            #     60                                                                       - aaa atg ggg aag gct gtc tgc aag ctt tat ga - #t cct gaa acg ggt gag           240                                                                           Lys Met Gly Lys Ala Val Cys Lys Leu Tyr As - #p Pro Glu Thr Gly Glu            # 80                                                                           - cta cac gtc ctt tac gac agc acg ggt cac aa - #g tca tac ttc ctt gtg           288                                                                           Leu His Val Leu Tyr Asp Ser Thr Gly His Ly - #s Ser Tyr Phe Leu Val            #                 95                                                           - gat tta gag cca gat cag atc caa aaa att cc - #a aag att gtt aag gat           336                                                                           Asp Leu Glu Pro Asp Gln Ile Gln Lys Ile Pr - #o Lys Ile Val Lys Asp            #           110                                                                - gag tcc ttt gtt agg ctt gag aag acc act aa - #a ata gac ccc tac act           384                                                                           Glu Ser Phe Val Arg Leu Glu Lys Thr Thr Ly - #s Ile Asp Pro Tyr Thr            #       125                                                                    - tgg aaa cct att aac cta acc aag att gtg gt - #g aat gac ccc ctc gct           432                                                                           Trp Lys Pro Ile Asn Leu Thr Lys Ile Val Va - #l Asn Asp Pro Leu Ala            #   140                                                                        - gtg aga cgc cta aga gaa tat gtc cca agg gc - #c tat gaa gct cat ata           480                                                                           Val Arg Arg Leu Arg Glu Tyr Val Pro Arg Al - #a Tyr Glu Ala His Ile            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - aaa tat ttt aac aat tat att tac gat ttc ag - #c ctc ata cca ggg atg           528                                                                           Lys Tyr Phe Asn Asn Tyr Ile Tyr Asp Phe Se - #r Leu Ile Pro Gly Met            #               175                                                            - ccc tac gtg gta aag aag ggg aag cta gtc cc - #c ctt aag ccg gag gtt           576                                                                           Pro Tyr Val Val Lys Lys Gly Lys Leu Val Pr - #o Leu Lys Pro Glu Val            #           190                                                                - gac gtc aaa gag gta aag gaa gcg ttc aag ga - #t gct gac cag ata gct           624                                                                           Asp Val Lys Glu Val Lys Glu Ala Phe Lys As - #p Ala Asp Gln Ile Ala            #       205                                                                    - caa gag atg gcg cta gac tgg gct ccc ctc tt - #t gag tcc gag att ccg           672                                                                           Gln Glu Met Ala Leu Asp Trp Ala Pro Leu Ph - #e Glu Ser Glu Ile Pro            #   220                                                                        - tcg gtg aag agg gtc gca ata gat ata gag gt - #t tat act ccc atg atg           720                                                                           Ser Val Lys Arg Val Ala Ile Asp Ile Glu Va - #l Tyr Thr Pro Met Met            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - ggt agg gta ccg gat cca gta aag gcc gag ta - #c ccc gtg ata agc gta           768                                                                           Gly Arg Val Pro Asp Pro Val Lys Ala Glu Ty - #r Pro Val Ile Ser Val            #               255                                                            - gcc cta gca ggg agc gat ggc ctg aaa ctg gt - #c cta gtc ctt gat agg           816                                                                           Ala Leu Ala Gly Ser Asp Gly Leu Lys Leu Va - #l Leu Val Leu Asp Arg            #           270                                                                - gga gat agt ccg att caa agt aag gat atc aa - #g gtt gag gtc ttc cgc           864                                                                           Gly Asp Ser Pro Ile Gln Ser Lys Asp Ile Ly - #s Val Glu Val Phe Arg            #       285                                                                    - aca gag agg gag ctt ctc tcc agg ttg ttt ga - #c att ctt aag gaa tat           912                                                                           Thr Glu Arg Glu Leu Leu Ser Arg Leu Phe As - #p Ile Leu Lys Glu Tyr            #   300                                                                        - ccc atg gtt ctg acc ttt aac gga gac gac tt - #c gat atc cca tac ctg           960                                                                           Pro Met Val Leu Thr Phe Asn Gly Asp Asp Ph - #e Asp Ile Pro Tyr Leu            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - atc ttc aga ggt ttc aag ctc ggg tta cta ca - #g gat gag ata ccc ttc          1008                                                                           Ile Phe Arg Gly Phe Lys Leu Gly Leu Leu Gl - #n Asp Glu Ile Pro Phe            #               335                                                            - gag atc tct agt ttt ggc agg aaa cct gac gc - #g aag ttc aga tat gga          1056                                                                           Glu Ile Ser Ser Phe Gly Arg Lys Pro Asp Al - #a Lys Phe Arg Tyr Gly            #           350                                                                - ttt cac ata gat ttg tac agg ttc ttc ttc aa - #c aag gcg gtc agg aac          1104                                                                           Phe His Ile Asp Leu Tyr Arg Phe Phe Phe As - #n Lys Ala Val Arg Asn            #       365                                                                    - tat gca ttt gag ggg aag tac tca gag tac aa - #c ctt gac acc gta gcc          1152                                                                           Tyr Ala Phe Glu Gly Lys Tyr Ser Glu Tyr As - #n Leu Asp Thr Val Ala            #   380                                                                        - cag gca ctc ttg ggt ctc tcc aag gtc aag tt - #g gac gag tcc att agc          1200                                                                           Gln Ala Leu Leu Gly Leu Ser Lys Val Lys Le - #u Asp Glu Ser Ile Ser            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - gac cta aac atg tct aaa ctc gtg gag tac aa - #c tac agg gac tcg gag          1248                                                                           Asp Leu Asn Met Ser Lys Leu Val Glu Tyr As - #n Tyr Arg Asp Ser Glu            #               415                                                            - atc acg ctg aag ttg acc acg ttc aac aac ga - #a cta gta tgg aag ttg          1296                                                                           Ile Thr Leu Lys Leu Thr Thr Phe Asn Asn Gl - #u Leu Val Trp Lys Leu            #           430                                                                - att gta ctc ttc tcc aga att tcc aag ctt gg - #t ata gag gag cta act          1344                                                                           Ile Val Leu Phe Ser Arg Ile Ser Lys Leu Gl - #y Ile Glu Glu Leu Thr            #       445                                                                    - agg aca gag ata tca gcc tgg gta aag aac ct - #g tac tac tgg gaa cat          1392                                                                           Arg Thr Glu Ile Ser Ala Trp Val Lys Asn Le - #u Tyr Tyr Trp Glu His            #   460                                                                        - agg aaa agg aac tgg tta atc ccc ctc aag ga - #g gaa atc ctt gaa cgc          1440                                                                           Arg Lys Arg Asn Trp Leu Ile Pro Leu Lys Gl - #u Glu Ile Leu Glu Arg            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - tcc tct ggg ttg aag aca gct gcc att atc aa - #g gga aag gga tac aag          1488                                                                           Ser Ser Gly Leu Lys Thr Ala Ala Ile Ile Ly - #s Gly Lys Gly Tyr Lys            #               495                                                            - ggc gca gtg gtc ata gac cca cct gtg ggg gt - #t tac ttt gac gta gtt          1536                                                                           Gly Ala Val Val Ile Asp Pro Pro Val Gly Va - #l Tyr Phe Asp Val Val            #           510                                                                - gtt ctg gac ttc gcc tca ctg tat ccc tcc at - #c atc agg aac tgg aac          1584                                                                           Val Leu Asp Phe Ala Ser Leu Tyr Pro Ser Il - #e Ile Arg Asn Trp Asn            #       525                                                                    - ctc agt tat gaa acc gtt gat gtg aag gaa tg - #t aac aag aaa agg gat          1632                                                                           Leu Ser Tyr Glu Thr Val Asp Val Lys Glu Cy - #s Asn Lys Lys Arg Asp            #   540                                                                        - ata agg gat gag agt ggg gcg aaa atc cat ga - #g gtg tgc gtg gac agg          1680                                                                           Ile Arg Asp Glu Ser Gly Ala Lys Ile His Gl - #u Val Cys Val Asp Arg            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - ccc ggg att act gca gtg gta act ggc tta ct - #t agg gac ttc agg gtc          1728                                                                           Pro Gly Ile Thr Ala Val Val Thr Gly Leu Le - #u Arg Asp Phe Arg Val            #               575                                                            - aaa att tac aag aag aaa ggg aaa cag agc aa - #c ata gac gag gag aga          1776                                                                           Lys Ile Tyr Lys Lys Lys Gly Lys Gln Ser As - #n Ile Asp Glu Glu Arg            #           590                                                                - aag atg ttg tac gac gtg gta cag agg ggc at - #g aag gtg ttc att aat          1824                                                                           Lys Met Leu Tyr Asp Val Val Gln Arg Gly Me - #t Lys Val Phe Ile Asn            #       605                                                                    - gcg acc tat ggc gtc ttc ggt gcg gag acc tt - #c ccc ttg tac gcc cca          1872                                                                           Ala Thr Tyr Gly Val Phe Gly Ala Glu Thr Ph - #e Pro Leu Tyr Ala Pro            #   620                                                                        - gca gtt gca gag agc gtt aca gcc cta ggt ag - #g tac gta atc acg tcc          1920                                                                           Ala Val Ala Glu Ser Val Thr Ala Leu Gly Ar - #g Tyr Val Ile Thr Ser            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - acc aag gaa atg gct aac aag ctt ggg ctg aa - #g gtt gtg tac ggg gat          1968                                                                           Thr Lys Glu Met Ala Asn Lys Leu Gly Leu Ly - #s Val Val Tyr Gly Asp            #               655                                                            - acg gac tcg ctc ttc att cac cag cct gat aa - #g aag aag ctg gag gaa          2016                                                                           Thr Asp Ser Leu Phe Ile His Gln Pro Asp Ly - #s Lys Lys Leu Glu Glu            #           670                                                                - ctg gtg gag tgg acc agg cag aac ttc ggg ct - #t gat cta gag gtg gac          2064                                                                           Leu Val Glu Trp Thr Arg Gln Asn Phe Gly Le - #u Asp Leu Glu Val Asp            #       685                                                                    - aaa act tac agg ttc att gcc ttc tcc ggt ct - #t aag aag aac tac ttc          2112                                                                           Lys Thr Tyr Arg Phe Ile Ala Phe Ser Gly Le - #u Lys Lys Asn Tyr Phe            #   700                                                                        - ggt gtg ttc aag gat tcc aag gtt gac ata aa - #g ggc atg ttg gca aag          2160                                                                           Gly Val Phe Lys Asp Ser Lys Val Asp Ile Ly - #s Gly Met Leu Ala Lys            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - aag agg aac acc cca gag ttt ctg aag cag gc - #c ttc aat gag gct aag          2208                                                                           Lys Arg Asn Thr Pro Glu Phe Leu Lys Gln Al - #a Phe Asn Glu Ala Lys            #               735                                                            - gag agg cta gcg aag gtt cag aac cag gag ga - #g ctc gaa aag gca att          2256                                                                           Glu Arg Leu Ala Lys Val Gln Asn Gln Glu Gl - #u Leu Glu Lys Ala Ile            #           750                                                                - caa gac tta acg gcg cag gtt aag gag gtg ta - #c agg aag ctt aag atg          2304                                                                           Gln Asp Leu Thr Ala Gln Val Lys Glu Val Ty - #r Arg Lys Leu Lys Met            #       765                                                                    - aag gaa tat aac ttg gat gag ctc gcc ttc ag - #g gtc atg tta tcc agg          2352                                                                           Lys Glu Tyr Asn Leu Asp Glu Leu Ala Phe Ar - #g Val Met Leu Ser Arg            #   780                                                                        - gac gtg aag tcc tat gag aag aac acc cca ca - #g cac gtt aag gct gcg          2400                                                                           Asp Val Lys Ser Tyr Glu Lys Asn Thr Pro Gl - #n His Val Lys Ala Ala            785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - gca cag ctg gcg gag atg aac gta caa gtg at - #g tca agg gat ata att          2448                                                                           Ala Gln Leu Ala Glu Met Asn Val Gln Val Me - #t Ser Arg Asp Ile Ile            #               815                                                            - agc ttc gta aag gta aag act aag gag gga gt - #t aaa cct gtc cag cta          2496                                                                           Ser Phe Val Lys Val Lys Thr Lys Glu Gly Va - #l Lys Pro Val Gln Leu            #           830                                                                - gct aag ctt tca gag att gat gtg gat aaa ta - #c tat gag agc gtg aga          2544                                                                           Ala Lys Leu Ser Glu Ile Asp Val Asp Lys Ty - #r Tyr Glu Ser Val Arg            #       845                                                                    - agt acc ttc gaa cag tta ttg aaa agc ttc aa - #t gtg agc tgg gat aga          2592                                                                           Ser Thr Phe Glu Gln Leu Leu Lys Ser Phe As - #n Val Ser Trp Asp Arg            #   860                                                                        - ata gag tcc acg aca tca atc gac tcg ttc tt - #c aag act tag                  #2634                                                                          Ile Glu Ser Thr Thr Ser Ile Asp Ser Phe Ph - #e Lys Thr                        865                 8 - #70                 8 - #75                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 8                                                            <211> LENGTH: 877                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Metallosphaera prunae                                          - <400> SEQUENCE: 8                                                            - Met Ser Ile Met Ala Arg Gln Leu Thr Leu Al - #a Asp Phe Ser Gly Ile          #                 15                                                           - Lys Arg Glu Glu Pro Val Lys Gln Glu Glu Ly - #s Thr Gln Glu Glu Glu          #             30                                                               - Arg Pro Leu Glu Arg Pro Ala Arg Leu Arg Ly - #s Asp Thr Val Lys Gln          #         45                                                                   - Ala Gln Glu Glu Arg Lys Tyr Phe Leu Leu Se - #r Val Asp Tyr Asp Gly          #     60                                                                       - Lys Met Gly Lys Ala Val Cys Lys Leu Tyr As - #p Pro Glu Thr Gly Glu          # 80                                                                           - Leu His Val Leu Tyr Asp Ser Thr Gly His Ly - #s Ser Tyr Phe Leu Val          #                 95                                                           - Asp Leu Glu Pro Asp Gln Ile Gln Lys Ile Pr - #o Lys Ile Val Lys Asp          #           110                                                                - Glu Ser Phe Val Arg Leu Glu Lys Thr Thr Ly - #s Ile Asp Pro Tyr Thr          #       125                                                                    - Trp Lys Pro Ile Asn Leu Thr Lys Ile Val Va - #l Asn Asp Pro Leu Ala          #   140                                                                        - Val Arg Arg Leu Arg Glu Tyr Val Pro Arg Al - #a Tyr Glu Ala His Ile          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Lys Tyr Phe Asn Asn Tyr Ile Tyr Asp Phe Se - #r Leu Ile Pro Gly Met          #               175                                                            - Pro Tyr Val Val Lys Lys Gly Lys Leu Val Pr - #o Leu Lys Pro Glu Val          #           190                                                                - Asp Val Lys Glu Val Lys Glu Ala Phe Lys As - #p Ala Asp Gln Ile Ala          #       205                                                                    - Gln Glu Met Ala Leu Asp Trp Ala Pro Leu Ph - #e Glu Ser Glu Ile Pro          #   220                                                                        - Ser Val Lys Arg Val Ala Ile Asp Ile Glu Va - #l Tyr Thr Pro Met Met          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Gly Arg Val Pro Asp Pro Val Lys Ala Glu Ty - #r Pro Val Ile Ser Val          #               255                                                            - Ala Leu Ala Gly Ser Asp Gly Leu Lys Leu Va - #l Leu Val Leu Asp Arg          #           270                                                                - Gly Asp Ser Pro Ile Gln Ser Lys Asp Ile Ly - #s Val Glu Val Phe Arg          #       285                                                                    - Thr Glu Arg Glu Leu Leu Ser Arg Leu Phe As - #p Ile Leu Lys Glu Tyr          #   300                                                                        - Pro Met Val Leu Thr Phe Asn Gly Asp Asp Ph - #e Asp Ile Pro Tyr Leu          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Ile Phe Arg Gly Phe Lys Leu Gly Leu Leu Gl - #n Asp Glu Ile Pro Phe          #               335                                                            - Glu Ile Ser Ser Phe Gly Arg Lys Pro Asp Al - #a Lys Phe Arg Tyr Gly          #           350                                                                - Phe His Ile Asp Leu Tyr Arg Phe Phe Phe As - #n Lys Ala Val Arg Asn          #       365                                                                    - Tyr Ala Phe Glu Gly Lys Tyr Ser Glu Tyr As - #n Leu Asp Thr Val Ala          #   380                                                                        - Gln Ala Leu Leu Gly Leu Ser Lys Val Lys Le - #u Asp Glu Ser Ile Ser          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Asp Leu Asn Met Ser Lys Leu Val Glu Tyr As - #n Tyr Arg Asp Ser Glu          #               415                                                            - Ile Thr Leu Lys Leu Thr Thr Phe Asn Asn Gl - #u Leu Val Trp Lys Leu          #           430                                                                - Ile Val Leu Phe Ser Arg Ile Ser Lys Leu Gl - #y Ile Glu Glu Leu Thr          #       445                                                                    - Arg Thr Glu Ile Ser Ala Trp Val Lys Asn Le - #u Tyr Tyr Trp Glu His          #   460                                                                        - Arg Lys Arg Asn Trp Leu Ile Pro Leu Lys Gl - #u Glu Ile Leu Glu Arg          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Ser Ser Gly Leu Lys Thr Ala Ala Ile Ile Ly - #s Gly Lys Gly Tyr Lys          #               495                                                            - Gly Ala Val Val Ile Asp Pro Pro Val Gly Va - #l Tyr Phe Asp Val Val          #           510                                                                - Val Leu Asp Phe Ala Ser Leu Tyr Pro Ser Il - #e Ile Arg Asn Trp Asn          #       525                                                                    - Leu Ser Tyr Glu Thr Val Asp Val Lys Glu Cy - #s Asn Lys Lys Arg Asp          #   540                                                                        - Ile Arg Asp Glu Ser Gly Ala Lys Ile His Gl - #u Val Cys Val Asp Arg          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Pro Gly Ile Thr Ala Val Val Thr Gly Leu Le - #u Arg Asp Phe Arg Val          #               575                                                            - Lys Ile Tyr Lys Lys Lys Gly Lys Gln Ser As - #n Ile Asp Glu Glu Arg          #           590                                                                - Lys Met Leu Tyr Asp Val Val Gln Arg Gly Me - #t Lys Val Phe Ile Asn          #       605                                                                    - Ala Thr Tyr Gly Val Phe Gly Ala Glu Thr Ph - #e Pro Leu Tyr Ala Pro          #   620                                                                        - Ala Val Ala Glu Ser Val Thr Ala Leu Gly Ar - #g Tyr Val Ile Thr Ser          625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - Thr Lys Glu Met Ala Asn Lys Leu Gly Leu Ly - #s Val Val Tyr Gly Asp          #               655                                                            - Thr Asp Ser Leu Phe Ile His Gln Pro Asp Ly - #s Lys Lys Leu Glu Glu          #           670                                                                - Leu Val Glu Trp Thr Arg Gln Asn Phe Gly Le - #u Asp Leu Glu Val Asp          #       685                                                                    - Lys Thr Tyr Arg Phe Ile Ala Phe Ser Gly Le - #u Lys Lys Asn Tyr Phe          #   700                                                                        - Gly Val Phe Lys Asp Ser Lys Val Asp Ile Ly - #s Gly Met Leu Ala Lys          705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - Lys Arg Asn Thr Pro Glu Phe Leu Lys Gln Al - #a Phe Asn Glu Ala Lys          #               735                                                            - Glu Arg Leu Ala Lys Val Gln Asn Gln Glu Gl - #u Leu Glu Lys Ala Ile          #           750                                                                - Gln Asp Leu Thr Ala Gln Val Lys Glu Val Ty - #r Arg Lys Leu Lys Met          #       765                                                                    - Lys Glu Tyr Asn Leu Asp Glu Leu Ala Phe Ar - #g Val Met Leu Ser Arg          #   780                                                                        - Asp Val Lys Ser Tyr Glu Lys Asn Thr Pro Gl - #n His Val Lys Ala Ala          785                 7 - #90                 7 - #95                 8 -        #00                                                                            - Ala Gln Leu Ala Glu Met Asn Val Gln Val Me - #t Ser Arg Asp Ile Ile          #               815                                                            - Ser Phe Val Lys Val Lys Thr Lys Glu Gly Va - #l Lys Pro Val Gln Leu          #           830                                                                - Ala Lys Leu Ser Glu Ile Asp Val Asp Lys Ty - #r Tyr Glu Ser Val Arg          #       845                                                                    - Ser Thr Phe Glu Gln Leu Leu Lys Ser Phe As - #n Val Ser Trp Asp Arg          #   860                                                                        - Ile Glu Ser Thr Thr Ser Ile Asp Ser Phe Ph - #e Lys Thr                      865                 8 - #70                 8 - #75                            - <210> SEQ ID NO 9                                                            <211> LENGTH: 2289                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Desulfurococcus sp.                                            <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(2286)                                                   <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: variation                                                      <222> LOCATION: (1801)..(1801)                                                 #either c or gFORMATION: s at position 1801 is                                 - <400> SEQUENCE: 9                                                            - atg gag agg gtt cgc cta gtg aag gtg gtt ac - #c aag gat cct cta atc            48                                                                           Met Glu Arg Val Arg Leu Val Lys Val Val Th - #r Lys Asp Pro Leu Ile            #                 15                                                           - gtg agg aag att agg agc aag ttt aac act gc - #g tgg gag gct aag ata            96                                                                           Val Arg Lys Ile Arg Ser Lys Phe Asn Thr Al - #a Trp Glu Ala Lys Ile            #             30                                                               - aag tat cat gca aac tac atc tac gat aat ag - #g ctg ata cct gga atg           144                                                                           Lys Tyr His Ala Asn Tyr Ile Tyr Asp Asn Ar - #g Leu Ile Pro Gly Met            #         45                                                                   - agg tat gtt aca gac ttc tcc aac ggt gcg ca - #a aag ctt gta atg gtt           192                                                                           Arg Tyr Val Thr Asp Phe Ser Asn Gly Ala Gl - #n Lys Leu Val Met Val            #     60                                                                       - aag cca gag ata ccc caa tcc ctt gtt gag aa - #a gta agg gag ttg ttc           240                                                                           Lys Pro Glu Ile Pro Gln Ser Leu Val Glu Ly - #s Val Arg Glu Leu Phe            # 80                                                                           - agg aat gag cct cct gaa aca gtg aag ctg gc - #t gag gaa ctc ctc ctc           288                                                                           Arg Asn Glu Pro Pro Glu Thr Val Lys Leu Al - #a Glu Glu Leu Leu Leu            #                 95                                                           - ttg ttc gag gag tca ccg ccc aag gtg aag cg - #c gta gca gtc gac ata           336                                                                           Leu Phe Glu Glu Ser Pro Pro Lys Val Lys Ar - #g Val Ala Val Asp Ile            #           110                                                                - gag gtt ttc acc cca ttc aaa ggg cgt atc cc - #c agc ccg aag ctc gcc           384                                                                           Glu Val Phe Thr Pro Phe Lys Gly Arg Ile Pr - #o Ser Pro Lys Leu Ala            #       125                                                                    - gaa tac cct gtg att agc ata gca ttg gcc gg - #t agc gac ggc ttg aag           432                                                                           Glu Tyr Pro Val Ile Ser Ile Ala Leu Ala Gl - #y Ser Asp Gly Leu Lys            #   140                                                                        - aaa atc ctc ctg ctg gcc agg gaa tac aag ca - #t gat ttc gac tac atg           480                                                                           Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Ala Arg Glu Tyr Lys Hi - #s Asp Phe Asp Tyr Met            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - atg gag gat tac cct gtt gaa gcc gag gtg ga - #g gtg ttc gac tcc gag           528                                                                           Met Glu Asp Tyr Pro Val Glu Ala Glu Val Gl - #u Val Phe Asp Ser Glu            #               175                                                            - aaa gac atg ttg ctg gaa gcc ttc aga ata at - #g ggg agc tat ccc gtc           576                                                                           Lys Asp Met Leu Leu Glu Ala Phe Arg Ile Me - #t Gly Ser Tyr Pro Val            #           190                                                                - gtc ctc act tac aac ggt gat aat ttc gac ct - #t caa tac ctg tac gtg           624                                                                           Val Leu Thr Tyr Asn Gly Asp Asn Phe Asp Le - #u Gln Tyr Leu Tyr Val            #       205                                                                    - aga gcc ttc aag ctg ggg att ctg aga agc ca - #t atc ccg ttg aag ata           672                                                                           Arg Ala Phe Lys Leu Gly Ile Leu Arg Ser Hi - #s Ile Pro Leu Lys Ile            #   220                                                                        - ggg gag gat atg att aga att gac aca agc at - #a cac cta gat cta tac           720                                                                           Gly Glu Asp Met Ile Arg Ile Asp Thr Ser Il - #e His Leu Asp Leu Tyr            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - aag ttc ttc tcg aac agg gct gtt aaa aac ta - #t gct ttc ggg ggg aaa           768                                                                           Lys Phe Phe Ser Asn Arg Ala Val Lys Asn Ty - #r Ala Phe Gly Gly Lys            #               255                                                            - tac cag gag gag aag ctt gac gct gtt tca gg - #g gca ctg cta gga gtg           816                                                                           Tyr Gln Glu Glu Lys Leu Asp Ala Val Ser Gl - #y Ala Leu Leu Gly Val            #           270                                                                - tcg aaa ata ggt ttc gag gaa aca atc ggc gg - #c ata tcg gcc tca cta           864                                                                           Ser Lys Ile Gly Phe Glu Glu Thr Ile Gly Gl - #y Ile Ser Ala Ser Leu            #       285                                                                    - tta gcc gcc tac aac tac agg gat gcc gag at - #c acg tta aac cta acc           912                                                                           Leu Ala Ala Tyr Asn Tyr Arg Asp Ala Glu Il - #e Thr Leu Asn Leu Thr            #   300                                                                        - atg ttc agt aat gaa ctc gtt tgg aaa ctc at - #t att ctt cta gct agg           960                                                                           Met Phe Ser Asn Glu Leu Val Trp Lys Leu Il - #e Ile Leu Leu Ala Arg            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - gtt tcc aag aca agc att gaa gac ctg tgt ag - #g agg cag att tcc tac          1008                                                                           Val Ser Lys Thr Ser Ile Glu Asp Leu Cys Ar - #g Arg Gln Ile Ser Tyr            #               335                                                            - tgg att caa aat ctg ttc ttc tgg gag cgc ag - #g aag ctc ggc tac ctc          1056                                                                           Trp Ile Gln Asn Leu Phe Phe Trp Glu Arg Ar - #g Lys Leu Gly Tyr Leu            #           350                                                                - ata cct aac aag gag gac att ctg agg cat gt - #a agg ggg acg ggg acg          1104                                                                           Ile Pro Asn Lys Glu Asp Ile Leu Arg His Va - #l Arg Gly Thr Gly Thr            #       365                                                                    - aag gcg att att gag ggt aag aag tac gct gg - #a gcc tta gtg gtt gag          1152                                                                           Lys Ala Ile Ile Glu Gly Lys Lys Tyr Ala Gl - #y Ala Leu Val Val Glu            #   380                                                                        - cct ccg aaa ggg gct ttc ttc aac gtg gtc gt - #c ctc gac ata gcc tcc          1200                                                                           Pro Pro Lys Gly Ala Phe Phe Asn Val Val Va - #l Leu Asp Ile Ala Ser            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - cta tac cct agc att atc aaa aaa tac aat ct - #g agc tat gag acc gtt          1248                                                                           Leu Tyr Pro Ser Ile Ile Lys Lys Tyr Asn Le - #u Ser Tyr Glu Thr Val            #               415                                                            - gac atg aag tgg tgt agc aag aca ata gat at - #t gtc gat gaa acc ggg          1296                                                                           Asp Met Lys Trp Cys Ser Lys Thr Ile Asp Il - #e Val Asp Glu Thr Gly            #           430                                                                - aga agg ctt cac gaa gtc tgc gtt gac aag cc - #c ggg ttg acc gcg caa          1344                                                                           Arg Arg Leu His Glu Val Cys Val Asp Lys Pr - #o Gly Leu Thr Ala Gln            #       445                                                                    - cta acc ggt att cta agg gat tac agg gtt gg - #a ata tat aag aag agg          1392                                                                           Leu Thr Gly Ile Leu Arg Asp Tyr Arg Val Gl - #y Ile Tyr Lys Lys Arg            #   460                                                                        - tct aag gat aag agc ctt ccc cct gaa acc ct - #g gcc tgg tac gag gtg          1440                                                                           Ser Lys Asp Lys Ser Leu Pro Pro Glu Thr Le - #u Ala Trp Tyr Glu Val            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - gtt cag aga gct att aag gtg ttc ata aac gc - #t agc tac ggg gtc ttc          1488                                                                           Val Gln Arg Ala Ile Lys Val Phe Ile Asn Al - #a Ser Tyr Gly Val Phe            #               495                                                            - ggg gat gag aag ttc tct ctg tac tcc cca gc - #a gtg gct gaa agc gtt          1536                                                                           Gly Asp Glu Lys Phe Ser Leu Tyr Ser Pro Al - #a Val Ala Glu Ser Val            #           510                                                                - acc gcg atg ggt agg aag tcc ttc tac act at - #t gtg aga aag gcc gcg          1584                                                                           Thr Ala Met Gly Arg Lys Ser Phe Tyr Thr Il - #e Val Arg Lys Ala Ala            #       525                                                                    - gat ctc ggg gtt aaa aca ctg tat ggc gac ac - #g gac tcg ata ttc gtc          1632                                                                           Asp Leu Gly Val Lys Thr Leu Tyr Gly Asp Th - #r Asp Ser Ile Phe Val            #   540                                                                        - tgg gcc cca acc cag gag cag ttg agg aag ct - #a cag tca tgg atc ctt          1680                                                                           Trp Ala Pro Thr Gln Glu Gln Leu Arg Lys Le - #u Gln Ser Trp Ile Leu            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - gag aag cta ggc ctg gag atc gag att gac aa - #g tct ttt aca tac gtg          1728                                                                           Glu Lys Leu Gly Leu Glu Ile Glu Ile Asp Ly - #s Ser Phe Thr Tyr Val            #               575                                                            - gtt ttc aca ggg ctt aag aag aac tac ctg gg - #c aga acg gtt gac ggc          1776                                                                           Val Phe Thr Gly Leu Lys Lys Asn Tyr Leu Gl - #y Arg Thr Val Asp Gly            #           590                                                                - ggc ata gag atc aag ggg ctt gtc scg aag aa - #g agg aat act ccg gag          1824                                                                           Gly Ile Glu Ile Lys Gly Leu Val Xaa Lys Ly - #s Arg Asn Thr Pro Glu            #       605                                                                    - ttc ctg aaa gac ttg ttc gag aat gtt atc ga - #a aag ctt aaa agc gtt          1872                                                                           Phe Leu Lys Asp Leu Phe Glu Asn Val Ile Gl - #u Lys Leu Lys Ser Val            #   620                                                                        - gaa aac ccc gcg ggt ttc ata gag ttc gtc aa - #g tgg ttg gag cat cag          1920                                                                           Glu Asn Pro Ala Gly Phe Ile Glu Phe Val Ly - #s Trp Leu Glu His Gln            625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - gtg aag aca ata cat aac gat att agg agg aa - #g gag ata acg ctc gac          1968                                                                           Val Lys Thr Ile His Asn Asp Ile Arg Arg Ly - #s Glu Ile Thr Leu Asp            #               655                                                            - cgg ctc gcc ata agg gtg gcc tta acc aag ac - #g cca tcc ctc tac act          2016                                                                           Arg Leu Ala Ile Arg Val Ala Leu Thr Lys Th - #r Pro Ser Leu Tyr Thr            #           670                                                                - aag act aag ccg ccg cat gtt aag gca gcc ct - #c caa tta atg aac tac          2064                                                                           Lys Thr Lys Pro Pro His Val Lys Ala Ala Le - #u Gln Leu Met Asn Tyr            #       685                                                                    - ggg tac agc gtg gag gag ggg gat att ata ac - #g ttt gtc aag gtg aag          2112                                                                           Gly Tyr Ser Val Glu Glu Gly Asp Ile Ile Th - #r Phe Val Lys Val Lys            #   700                                                                        - agc aag gag ggc tat aag gct ata cag tta ac - #g agg ctt cac gaa gta          2160                                                                           Ser Lys Glu Gly Tyr Lys Ala Ile Gln Leu Th - #r Arg Leu His Glu Val            705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - gac cct gat aag tac att gag ctt gtt aaa ag - #c ggt ctt gaa caa ttc          2208                                                                           Asp Pro Asp Lys Tyr Ile Glu Leu Val Lys Se - #r Gly Leu Glu Gln Phe            #               735                                                            - ctc tca gcc ttc gga ata agg tgg gag gat at - #c ata ggc tcc ggc ggg          2256                                                                           Leu Ser Ala Phe Gly Ile Arg Trp Glu Asp Il - #e Ile Gly Ser Gly Gly            #           750                                                                #       2289g ctt ttg aga aac aat agg gcg ta - #g                              Leu Thr Glu Leu Leu Arg Asn Asn Arg Ala                                        #       760                                                                    - <210> SEQ ID NO 10                                                           <211> LENGTH: 762                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Desulfurococcus sp.                                            <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: variation                                                      <222> LOCATION: (601)..(601)                                                   <223> OTHER INFORMATION: Xaa at position 601 is - # alanine or proline         - <400> SEQUENCE: 10                                                           - Met Glu Arg Val Arg Leu Val Lys Val Val Th - #r Lys Asp Pro Leu Ile          #                 15                                                           - Val Arg Lys Ile Arg Ser Lys Phe Asn Thr Al - #a Trp Glu Ala Lys Ile          #             30                                                               - Lys Tyr His Ala Asn Tyr Ile Tyr Asp Asn Ar - #g Leu Ile Pro Gly Met          #         45                                                                   - Arg Tyr Val Thr Asp Phe Ser Asn Gly Ala Gl - #n Lys Leu Val Met Val          #     60                                                                       - Lys Pro Glu Ile Pro Gln Ser Leu Val Glu Ly - #s Val Arg Glu Leu Phe          # 80                                                                           - Arg Asn Glu Pro Pro Glu Thr Val Lys Leu Al - #a Glu Glu Leu Leu Leu          #                 95                                                           - Leu Phe Glu Glu Ser Pro Pro Lys Val Lys Ar - #g Val Ala Val Asp Ile          #           110                                                                - Glu Val Phe Thr Pro Phe Lys Gly Arg Ile Pr - #o Ser Pro Lys Leu Ala          #       125                                                                    - Glu Tyr Pro Val Ile Ser Ile Ala Leu Ala Gl - #y Ser Asp Gly Leu Lys          #   140                                                                        - Lys Ile Leu Leu Leu Ala Arg Glu Tyr Lys Hi - #s Asp Phe Asp Tyr Met          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Met Glu Asp Tyr Pro Val Glu Ala Glu Val Gl - #u Val Phe Asp Ser Glu          #               175                                                            - Lys Asp Met Leu Leu Glu Ala Phe Arg Ile Me - #t Gly Ser Tyr Pro Val          #           190                                                                - Val Leu Thr Tyr Asn Gly Asp Asn Phe Asp Le - #u Gln Tyr Leu Tyr Val          #       205                                                                    - Arg Ala Phe Lys Leu Gly Ile Leu Arg Ser Hi - #s Ile Pro Leu Lys Ile          #   220                                                                        - Gly Glu Asp Met Ile Arg Ile Asp Thr Ser Il - #e His Leu Asp Leu Tyr          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Lys Phe Phe Ser Asn Arg Ala Val Lys Asn Ty - #r Ala Phe Gly Gly Lys          #               255                                                            - Tyr Gln Glu Glu Lys Leu Asp Ala Val Ser Gl - #y Ala Leu Leu Gly Val          #           270                                                                - Ser Lys Ile Gly Phe Glu Glu Thr Ile Gly Gl - #y Ile Ser Ala Ser Leu          #       285                                                                    - Leu Ala Ala Tyr Asn Tyr Arg Asp Ala Glu Il - #e Thr Leu Asn Leu Thr          #   300                                                                        - Met Phe Ser Asn Glu Leu Val Trp Lys Leu Il - #e Ile Leu Leu Ala Arg          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Val Ser Lys Thr Ser Ile Glu Asp Leu Cys Ar - #g Arg Gln Ile Ser Tyr          #               335                                                            - Trp Ile Gln Asn Leu Phe Phe Trp Glu Arg Ar - #g Lys Leu Gly Tyr Leu          #           350                                                                - Ile Pro Asn Lys Glu Asp Ile Leu Arg His Va - #l Arg Gly Thr Gly Thr          #       365                                                                    - Lys Ala Ile Ile Glu Gly Lys Lys Tyr Ala Gl - #y Ala Leu Val Val Glu          #   380                                                                        - Pro Pro Lys Gly Ala Phe Phe Asn Val Val Va - #l Leu Asp Ile Ala Ser          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Leu Tyr Pro Ser Ile Ile Lys Lys Tyr Asn Le - #u Ser Tyr Glu Thr Val          #               415                                                            - Asp Met Lys Trp Cys Ser Lys Thr Ile Asp Il - #e Val Asp Glu Thr Gly          #           430                                                                - Arg Arg Leu His Glu Val Cys Val Asp Lys Pr - #o Gly Leu Thr Ala Gln          #       445                                                                    - Leu Thr Gly Ile Leu Arg Asp Tyr Arg Val Gl - #y Ile Tyr Lys Lys Arg          #   460                                                                        - Ser Lys Asp Lys Ser Leu Pro Pro Glu Thr Le - #u Ala Trp Tyr Glu Val          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Val Gln Arg Ala Ile Lys Val Phe Ile Asn Al - #a Ser Tyr Gly Val Phe          #               495                                                            - Gly Asp Glu Lys Phe Ser Leu Tyr Ser Pro Al - #a Val Ala Glu Ser Val          #           510                                                                - Thr Ala Met Gly Arg Lys Ser Phe Tyr Thr Il - #e Val Arg Lys Ala Ala          #       525                                                                    - Asp Leu Gly Val Lys Thr Leu Tyr Gly Asp Th - #r Asp Ser Ile Phe Val          #   540                                                                        - Trp Ala Pro Thr Gln Glu Gln Leu Arg Lys Le - #u Gln Ser Trp Ile Leu          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Glu Lys Leu Gly Leu Glu Ile Glu Ile Asp Ly - #s Ser Phe Thr Tyr Val          #               575                                                            - Val Phe Thr Gly Leu Lys Lys Asn Tyr Leu Gl - #y Arg Thr Val Asp Gly          #           590                                                                - Gly Ile Glu Ile Lys Gly Leu Val Xaa Lys Ly - #s Arg Asn Thr Pro Glu          #       605                                                                    - Phe Leu Lys Asp Leu Phe Glu Asn Val Ile Gl - #u Lys Leu Lys Ser Val          #   620                                                                        - Glu Asn Pro Ala Gly Phe Ile Glu Phe Val Ly - #s Trp Leu Glu His Gln          625                 6 - #30                 6 - #35                 6 -        #40                                                                            - Val Lys Thr Ile His Asn Asp Ile Arg Arg Ly - #s Glu Ile Thr Leu Asp          #               655                                                            - Arg Leu Ala Ile Arg Val Ala Leu Thr Lys Th - #r Pro Ser Leu Tyr Thr          #           670                                                                - Lys Thr Lys Pro Pro His Val Lys Ala Ala Le - #u Gln Leu Met Asn Tyr          #       685                                                                    - Gly Tyr Ser Val Glu Glu Gly Asp Ile Ile Th - #r Phe Val Lys Val Lys          #   700                                                                        - Ser Lys Glu Gly Tyr Lys Ala Ile Gln Leu Th - #r Arg Leu His Glu Val          705                 7 - #10                 7 - #15                 7 -        #20                                                                            - Asp Pro Asp Lys Tyr Ile Glu Leu Val Lys Se - #r Gly Leu Glu Gln Phe          #               735                                                            - Leu Ser Ala Phe Gly Ile Arg Trp Glu Asp Il - #e Ile Gly Ser Gly Gly          #           750                                                                - Leu Thr Glu Leu Leu Arg Asn Asn Arg Ala                                      #       760                                                                    - <210> SEQ ID NO 11                                                           <211> LENGTH: 1725                                                             <212> TYPE: DNA                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Aquifex pyrophilus                                             <220> FEATURE:                                                                 <221> NAME/KEY: CDS                                                            <222> LOCATION: (1)...(1722)                                                   - <400> SEQUENCE: 11                                                           - atg gat ttt gaa tac gta acg gga gaa gag gg - #a tta aaa aag gca ata            48                                                                           Met Asp Phe Glu Tyr Val Thr Gly Glu Glu Gl - #y Leu Lys Lys Ala Ile            #                 15                                                           - aaa agg ctc gaa aat tct cca tac ctt tac ct - #g gat acg gaa acc aca            96                                                                           Lys Arg Leu Glu Asn Ser Pro Tyr Leu Tyr Le - #u Asp Thr Glu Thr Thr            #             30                                                               - gga gac agg ata agg ctc gta caa atc gga ga - #c gaa gaa aac acc tac           144                                                                           Gly Asp Arg Ile Arg Leu Val Gln Ile Gly As - #p Glu Glu Asn Thr Tyr            #         45                                                                   - gtt att gac ctc tac gaa att cag gat ata ga - #a cct ctg agg aaa tta           192                                                                           Val Ile Asp Leu Tyr Glu Ile Gln Asp Ile Gl - #u Pro Leu Arg Lys Leu            #     60                                                                       - ata aac gaa agg ggg ata gta ggg cac aac ct - #t aag ttc gat ctt aag           240                                                                           Ile Asn Glu Arg Gly Ile Val Gly His Asn Le - #u Lys Phe Asp Leu Lys            # 80                                                                           - tac ctc tac agg tac ggg ata ttt ccc tcg gc - #a acg ttt gac act atg           288                                                                           Tyr Leu Tyr Arg Tyr Gly Ile Phe Pro Ser Al - #a Thr Phe Asp Thr Met            #                 95                                                           - ata gcg agc tac ctc ctc gga tac gag aga ca - #c tcc ctc aat cac ata           336                                                                           Ile Ala Ser Tyr Leu Leu Gly Tyr Glu Arg Hi - #s Ser Leu Asn His Ile            #           110                                                                - gtt tca aac cta ctc gga tat tcc atg gac aa - #g agt tat cag act tcc           384                                                                           Val Ser Asn Leu Leu Gly Tyr Ser Met Asp Ly - #s Ser Tyr Gln Thr Ser            #       125                                                                    - gac tgg gga gcg agc gtt ctg agc gac gct ca - #g ctc aag tac gct gca           432                                                                           Asp Trp Gly Ala Ser Val Leu Ser Asp Ala Gl - #n Leu Lys Tyr Ala Ala            #   140                                                                        - aac gac gtt ata gtc ctc aga gaa ctc ttc cc - #t aag atg agg gac atg           480                                                                           Asn Asp Val Ile Val Leu Arg Glu Leu Phe Pr - #o Lys Met Arg Asp Met            145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - tta aac gag cta gac gct gag agg gga gag ga - #a ctg ctc aag act aga           528                                                                           Leu Asn Glu Leu Asp Ala Glu Arg Gly Glu Gl - #u Leu Leu Lys Thr Arg            #               175                                                            - acg gca aag att ttc gat ctg aag agt ccc gt - #a gca ata gtg gaa atg           576                                                                           Thr Ala Lys Ile Phe Asp Leu Lys Ser Pro Va - #l Ala Ile Val Glu Met            #           190                                                                - gct ttc gta agg gaa gtt gca aaa ctc gag at - #a aac ggc ttt ccc gtg           624                                                                           Ala Phe Val Arg Glu Val Ala Lys Leu Glu Il - #e Asn Gly Phe Pro Val            #       205                                                                    - gac gta gaa gag cta acc aac aag tta aaa gc - #t gtg gaa agg gaa acc           672                                                                           Asp Val Glu Glu Leu Thr Asn Lys Leu Lys Al - #a Val Glu Arg Glu Thr            #   220                                                                        - cag aag agg ata cag gag ttt tac ata aag ta - #c aga gtt gac cct ctc           720                                                                           Gln Lys Arg Ile Gln Glu Phe Tyr Ile Lys Ty - #r Arg Val Asp Pro Leu            225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - tct ccg aaa cag ctc gcc tca ctc ctg acg aa - #g aag ttt aaa ctg aac           768                                                                           Ser Pro Lys Gln Leu Ala Ser Leu Leu Thr Ly - #s Lys Phe Lys Leu Asn            #               255                                                            - ctt ccc aag act cct aaa ggg aac gta tct ac - #a gac gac aag gct ctt           816                                                                           Leu Pro Lys Thr Pro Lys Gly Asn Val Ser Th - #r Asp Asp Lys Ala Leu            #           270                                                                - act tcc tat cag gac gta gaa ccc gta aaa ct - #c gtt ctg gaa ata aga           864                                                                           Thr Ser Tyr Gln Asp Val Glu Pro Val Lys Le - #u Val Leu Glu Ile Arg            #       285                                                                    - aag ctt aag aag atc gcg gac aag tta aag ga - #g tta aaa gaa cac ttg           912                                                                           Lys Leu Lys Lys Ile Ala Asp Lys Leu Lys Gl - #u Leu Lys Glu His Leu            #   300                                                                        - aag aac ggg aga gtt tac ccg gag ttc aag ca - #a ata gga gct gta acg           960                                                                           Lys Asn Gly Arg Val Tyr Pro Glu Phe Lys Gl - #n Ile Gly Ala Val Thr            305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - gga agg atg tcc tcc gca cac cca aat atc ca - #g aac ata cac agg gat          1008                                                                           Gly Arg Met Ser Ser Ala His Pro Asn Ile Gl - #n Asn Ile His Arg Asp            #               335                                                            - atg aga gga att ttc aag gcg gag gag gga aa - #t act ttc gtc att tcg          1056                                                                           Met Arg Gly Ile Phe Lys Ala Glu Glu Gly As - #n Thr Phe Val Ile Ser            #           350                                                                - gac ttt tct cag ata gag ctc agg att gcg gc - #c gaa tac gta aag gac          1104                                                                           Asp Phe Ser Gln Ile Glu Leu Arg Ile Ala Al - #a Glu Tyr Val Lys Asp            #       365                                                                    - ccg ctt atg ctg gac gcc ttc aaa aag gga aa - #g gac atg cac agg tac          1152                                                                           Pro Leu Met Leu Asp Ala Phe Lys Lys Gly Ly - #s Asp Met His Arg Tyr            #   380                                                                        - acc gct tca gtg gta ctc gga aag aaa gag ga - #a gaa ata aca aaa gag          1200                                                                           Thr Ala Ser Val Val Leu Gly Lys Lys Glu Gl - #u Glu Ile Thr Lys Glu            385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - gag aga cag ctc gca aaa gct ata aac ttc gg - #t ctc ata tac ggc att          1248                                                                           Glu Arg Gln Leu Ala Lys Ala Ile Asn Phe Gl - #y Leu Ile Tyr Gly Ile            #               415                                                            - tcc gct aaa ggg ctt gca gaa tac gca aag ct - #t ggt tac ggc gtt gaa          1296                                                                           Ser Ala Lys Gly Leu Ala Glu Tyr Ala Lys Le - #u Gly Tyr Gly Val Glu            #           430                                                                - att tct tta gaa gaa gct cag gtt ttg aga ga - #g agg ttt ttc aag aac          1344                                                                           Ile Ser Leu Glu Glu Ala Gln Val Leu Arg Gl - #u Arg Phe Phe Lys Asn            #       445                                                                    - ttc aaa gct ttc aaa gag tgg cac gac aga gt - #t aag aaa gaa cta aag          1392                                                                           Phe Lys Ala Phe Lys Glu Trp His Asp Arg Va - #l Lys Lys Glu Leu Lys            #   460                                                                        - gaa aag gga gag gta aaa ggt cat acg ctt ct - #t gga agg aga ttt tcc          1440                                                                           Glu Lys Gly Glu Val Lys Gly His Thr Leu Le - #u Gly Arg Arg Phe Ser            465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - gca aat acc ttt aac gac gct gta aat tac cc - #c ata cag gga acg ggt          1488                                                                           Ala Asn Thr Phe Asn Asp Ala Val Asn Tyr Pr - #o Ile Gln Gly Thr Gly            #               495                                                            - gcg gac cta cta aaa ctg gca gtt cta ctt tt - #t gac gca aac ctc cag          1536                                                                           Ala Asp Leu Leu Lys Leu Ala Val Leu Leu Ph - #e Asp Ala Asn Leu Gln            #           510                                                                - aaa aag gga ata gat gca aag ctc gtg aac ct - #c gtg cac gac gag ata          1584                                                                           Lys Lys Gly Ile Asp Ala Lys Leu Val Asn Le - #u Val His Asp Glu Ile            #       525                                                                    - gtc gta gag tgc gaa aag gaa aaa gcg gaa ga - #a gta aaa gaa ata ctc          1632                                                                           Val Val Glu Cys Glu Lys Glu Lys Ala Glu Gl - #u Val Lys Glu Ile Leu            #   540                                                                        - gaa aaa tcc atg aaa acg gcg gga aag ata at - #a ctg aaa gag gtt ccc          1680                                                                           Glu Lys Ser Met Lys Thr Ala Gly Lys Ile Il - #e Leu Lys Glu Val Pro            545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - gtg gaa gta gaa agc gtt ata aac gaa agg tg - #g acg aaa gat                  #1722                                                                          Val Glu Val Glu Ser Val Ile Asn Glu Arg Tr - #p Thr Lys Asp                    #               570                                                            #           1725                                                               - <210> SEQ ID NO 12                                                           <211> LENGTH: 574                                                              <212> TYPE: PRT                                                                <213> ORGANISM: Aquifex pyrophilus                                             - <400> SEQUENCE: 12                                                           - Met Asp Phe Glu Tyr Val Thr Gly Glu Glu Gl - #y Leu Lys Lys Ala Ile          #                 15                                                           - Lys Arg Leu Glu Asn Ser Pro Tyr Leu Tyr Le - #u Asp Thr Glu Thr Thr          #             30                                                               - Gly Asp Arg Ile Arg Leu Val Gln Ile Gly As - #p Glu Glu Asn Thr Tyr          #         45                                                                   - Val Ile Asp Leu Tyr Glu Ile Gln Asp Ile Gl - #u Pro Leu Arg Lys Leu          #     60                                                                       - Ile Asn Glu Arg Gly Ile Val Gly His Asn Le - #u Lys Phe Asp Leu Lys          # 80                                                                           - Tyr Leu Tyr Arg Tyr Gly Ile Phe Pro Ser Al - #a Thr Phe Asp Thr Met          #                 95                                                           - Ile Ala Ser Tyr Leu Leu Gly Tyr Glu Arg Hi - #s Ser Leu Asn His Ile          #           110                                                                - Val Ser Asn Leu Leu Gly Tyr Ser Met Asp Ly - #s Ser Tyr Gln Thr Ser          #       125                                                                    - Asp Trp Gly Ala Ser Val Leu Ser Asp Ala Gl - #n Leu Lys Tyr Ala Ala          #   140                                                                        - Asn Asp Val Ile Val Leu Arg Glu Leu Phe Pr - #o Lys Met Arg Asp Met          145                 1 - #50                 1 - #55                 1 -        #60                                                                            - Leu Asn Glu Leu Asp Ala Glu Arg Gly Glu Gl - #u Leu Leu Lys Thr Arg          #               175                                                            - Thr Ala Lys Ile Phe Asp Leu Lys Ser Pro Va - #l Ala Ile Val Glu Met          #           190                                                                - Ala Phe Val Arg Glu Val Ala Lys Leu Glu Il - #e Asn Gly Phe Pro Val          #       205                                                                    - Asp Val Glu Glu Leu Thr Asn Lys Leu Lys Al - #a Val Glu Arg Glu Thr          #   220                                                                        - Gln Lys Arg Ile Gln Glu Phe Tyr Ile Lys Ty - #r Arg Val Asp Pro Leu          225                 2 - #30                 2 - #35                 2 -        #40                                                                            - Ser Pro Lys Gln Leu Ala Ser Leu Leu Thr Ly - #s Lys Phe Lys Leu Asn          #               255                                                            - Leu Pro Lys Thr Pro Lys Gly Asn Val Ser Th - #r Asp Asp Lys Ala Leu          #           270                                                                - Thr Ser Tyr Gln Asp Val Glu Pro Val Lys Le - #u Val Leu Glu Ile Arg          #       285                                                                    - Lys Leu Lys Lys Ile Ala Asp Lys Leu Lys Gl - #u Leu Lys Glu His Leu          #   300                                                                        - Lys Asn Gly Arg Val Tyr Pro Glu Phe Lys Gl - #n Ile Gly Ala Val Thr          305                 3 - #10                 3 - #15                 3 -        #20                                                                            - Gly Arg Met Ser Ser Ala His Pro Asn Ile Gl - #n Asn Ile His Arg Asp          #               335                                                            - Met Arg Gly Ile Phe Lys Ala Glu Glu Gly As - #n Thr Phe Val Ile Ser          #           350                                                                - Asp Phe Ser Gln Ile Glu Leu Arg Ile Ala Al - #a Glu Tyr Val Lys Asp          #       365                                                                    - Pro Leu Met Leu Asp Ala Phe Lys Lys Gly Ly - #s Asp Met His Arg Tyr          #   380                                                                        - Thr Ala Ser Val Val Leu Gly Lys Lys Glu Gl - #u Glu Ile Thr Lys Glu          385                 3 - #90                 3 - #95                 4 -        #00                                                                            - Glu Arg Gln Leu Ala Lys Ala Ile Asn Phe Gl - #y Leu Ile Tyr Gly Ile          #               415                                                            - Ser Ala Lys Gly Leu Ala Glu Tyr Ala Lys Le - #u Gly Tyr Gly Val Glu          #           430                                                                - Ile Ser Leu Glu Glu Ala Gln Val Leu Arg Gl - #u Arg Phe Phe Lys Asn          #       445                                                                    - Phe Lys Ala Phe Lys Glu Trp His Asp Arg Va - #l Lys Lys Glu Leu Lys          #   460                                                                        - Glu Lys Gly Glu Val Lys Gly His Thr Leu Le - #u Gly Arg Arg Phe Ser          465                 4 - #70                 4 - #75                 4 -        #80                                                                            - Ala Asn Thr Phe Asn Asp Ala Val Asn Tyr Pr - #o Ile Gln Gly Thr Gly          #               495                                                            - Ala Asp Leu Leu Lys Leu Ala Val Leu Leu Ph - #e Asp Ala Asn Leu Gln          #           510                                                                - Lys Lys Gly Ile Asp Ala Lys Leu Val Asn Le - #u Val His Asp Glu Ile          #       525                                                                    - Val Val Glu Cys Glu Lys Glu Lys Ala Glu Gl - #u Val Lys Glu Ile Leu          #   540                                                                        - Glu Lys Ser Met Lys Thr Ala Gly Lys Ile Il - #e Leu Lys Glu Val Pro          545                 5 - #50                 5 - #55                 5 -        #60                                                                            - Val Glu Val Glu Ser Val Ile Asn Glu Arg Tr - #p Thr Lys Asp                  #               570                                                            __________________________________________________________________________ 

What is claimed is:
 1. An isolated polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of:a) SEQ IDNO:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11; b) SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 wherein T can also be U; c) nucleic acid sequences complementary to a) and b); and d) fragments of a), b), or c) that are at least 15 bases in length and that will hybridize to DNA which encodes the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO:2, 4, 6, 8, or 12 under moderate to highly stringent conditions.
 2. An isolated polynucleotide sequence encoding a polymerase having an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEO ID NO:2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and
 12. 3. The polynucleotide of claim 2, wherein the polynucleotide is isolated from a prokaryote.
 4. An expression vector including the polynucleotide of claim
 2. 5. The vector of claim 4, wherein the vector is a plasmid.
 6. The vector of claim 4, wherein the vector is derived from a virus.
 7. A host cell stably transformed with the vector of claim
 4. 8. The host cell of claim 7, wherein the cell is prokaryotic.
 9. The host cell of claim 7, wherein the cell is eukaryotic.
 10. A method for producing a polypeptide comprising:a) culturing the host cells of claim 7; b) expressing from the host cell of claim 7 a polypeptide encoded by said DNA; and c) isolating the polypeptide.
 11. A process for producing a cell comprising transforming or transfecting the cell with the vector of claim 4 such that the cell expresses the polypeptide encoded by the DNA contained in the vector.
 12. An isolated polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of:a) a polynucleotide encoding an enzyme comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group of amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOS:2, 4, 6, 8, and 12; b) a polynucleotide which is complementary to the polynucleotide of a); c) a polynucleotide comprising at least 15 bases of the polynucleotide of a) or b) and hybridizes to DNA which encodes an amino acid sequence selected from the group of amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOS:2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 under moderate to highly stringent conditions.
 13. An isolated polynucleotide encoding an enzyme comprising an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:10 and polynucleotides complementary thereto. 